Pyle April D, Donovan Peter J, Lock Leslie F
Germ Cell and Stem Cell Group, Stem Cell Program, Institute for Cell Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Genome Biol. 2004;5(8):235. doi: 10.1186/gb-2004-5-8-235. Epub 2004 Jul 29.
Global gene-expression analyses of human embryonic stem cells confirm the involvement of some known genes in stem-cell function and identify some new candidate regulators of stem-cell growth. Support remains elusive, however, for the concept of 'stemness'--a pattern of expression of genes that is common to all stem cells.