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Papers of the Week

March 2-March 8 2014

This week's Journalstream spans stem cell research advances in the liver and the brain, as well as describes critical insights into stem cell niche formation. In our Editor's Pick this week, Omatsu et al. describe their finding that the transcription factor Foxc1 is critical for HSC niche formation.

Neurogenesis in the striatum of the adult human brain.

Ernst, A., Alkass, K., Bernard, S., Salehpour, M., Perl, S., Tisdale, J., Possnert, G., Druid, H., and Frisén, J. (2014). Neurogenesis in the striatum of the adult human brain.Cell156, 1072-83.

Mouse liver repopulation with hepatocytes generated from human fibroblasts.

Zhu, S., Rezvani, M., Harbell, J., Mattis, A.N., Wolfe, A.R., Benet, L.Z., Willenbring, H., and Ding, S. (2014). Mouse liver repopulation with hepatocytes generated from human fibroblasts.Nature.

Editors' Pick

Foxc1 is a critical regulator of haematopoietic stem/progenitor cell niche formation.

Omatsu, Y., Seike, M., Sugiyama, T., Kume, T., and Nagasawa, T. (2014). Foxc1 is a critical regulator of haematopoietic stem/progenitor cell niche formation.Nature.