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Derivation of multipotent mesenchymal precursors from human embryonic stem cells.

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This work presents culture conditions for the derivation of unlimited numbers of pure mesenchymal precursors from human embryonic stem cells and demonstrates multilineage differentiation into fat, cartilage, bone, and skeletal muscle cells.
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Background Human embryonic stem cells provide access to the earliest stages of human development and may serve as a source of specialized cells for regenerative medicine. Thus, it becomes crucial to develop protocols for the directed differentiation of embryonic stem cells into tissue-restricted precursors. Methods and Findings Here, we present culture conditions for the derivation of unlimited numbers of pure mesenchymal precursors from human embryonic stem cells and demonstrate multilineage differentiation into fat, cartilage, bone, and skeletal muscle cells. Conclusion Our findings will help to elucidate the mechanism of mesoderm specification during embryonic stem cell differentiation and provide a platform to efficiently generate specialized human mesenchymal cell types for future clinical applications.

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TL;DR: Human blastocyst-derived, pluripotent cell lines are described that have normal karyotypes, express high levels of telomerase activity, and express cell surface markers that characterize primate embryonic stem cells but do not characterize other early lineages.
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Functional expression cloning of nanog, a pluripotency sustaining factor in embryonic stem cells

TL;DR: These findings establish a central role for Nanog in the transcription factor hierarchy that defines ES cell identity and confirm that Cytokine dependence, multilineage differentiation, and embryo colonization capacity are fully restored upon transgene excision.
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In vitro differentiation of transplantable neural precursors from human embryonic stem cells

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