Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️<p>Scientists recreate mouse stem cells f. gene older than animal life<br><a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/11/241118125716.htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencedaily.com/releases/2024</span><span class="invisible">/11/241118125716.htm</span></a></p><p>* unicellular Sox, POU transcription factors<br>* created mouse stem cells capable of gen. fully dev. mouse<br>* reshapes understanding of genetic/evol. origins of stem cells<br>* poss. critical for advent of stem cells, multicellularity</p><p>Emergence of Sox & POU transcript. factors predates origins of animal stem cells<br><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54152-x" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/s41467-024</span><span class="invisible">-54152-x</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StemCells" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StemCells</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MolecularBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MolecularBiology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TranscriptionFactors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TranscriptionFactors</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sox</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pou</span></a></p>