Human haploid ESCs exhibited typical colony morphology and expressed classical human ESC markers, including alkaline phosphatase, OCT4, NANOG, SSEA4, SOX2, TRA-1-81 and TRA-1-60 (Figure 1E and ...

Evolution, Vol. 71, No. 2 (FEBRUARY 2017), pp. 215-226 (12 pages) Many organisms spend a significant portion of their life cycle as haploids and as diploids (a haploid–diploid life cycle). However, ...

Figure 1: Haploid Arabidopsis thaliana produced by crossing plants expressing altered CENH3 to wild type. Figure 3: A natural Arabidopsis tetraploid converted to diploid by centromere-mediated genome ...

Stem cell research holds huge potential for medicine and human health. In particular, human embryonic stem cells (ESCs), with their ability to turn into any cell in the human body, are essential to ...

A common strategy to create high-yielding plants is hybrid breeding. However, getting the inbred lines in the first place can be a hassle. In maize, the use of so-called 'haploid inducers' provides a ...

Sometimes less is more. Scientists have created a new kind of human stem cell that has just half a genome. The cells can be turned into any tissue in the human body, despite only containing one set of ...