This major breakthrough in neuromuscular diseases has just been published August 3, 2015 in Nature Biotechnology.
“With our method, which does not require any genetic manipulation, we obtain muscle fibers which contract, but also satellite stem cells “
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Olivier Pourquié,
IGBMC and Harvard University
(photo credit : Lola Vélasquez/IGBMC) |
More information with the original article [ doi:10.1038/nbt.3297 ] :
Differentiation of pluripotent stem cells to muscle fiber to model Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Authors :
- Jérome Chal,
- Masayuki Oginuma,
- Ziad Al Tanoury,
- Bénédicte Gobert,
- Olga Sumara,
- Aurore Hick,
- Fanny Bousson,
- Yasmine Zidouni,
- Caroline Mursch,
- Philippe Moncuquet,
- Olivier Tassy,
- Stéphane Vincent,
- Ayako Miyanari,
- Agata Bera,
- Jean-Marie Garnier,
- Getzabel Guevara,
- Marie Hestin,
- Leif Kennedy,
- Shinichiro Hayashi,
- Bernadette Drayton,
- Thomas Cherrier,
- Barbara Gayraud-Morel,
- Emanuela Gussoni,
- Frédéric Relaix,
- Shahragim Tajbakhsh
- Olivier Pourquié