Together with Kyoung and Richard, we wrote a review article in Cellular and Molecule Life Sciences on the diverse repertoire of cell fates accessible to naive human pluripotent stem cells. When we first derived these cells over a decade ago, little did we know that they harbored such broad developmental potential and would ultimately become a cornerstone of human embryo models.
Check it out in CMLS: https://tinyurl.com/3td35h47
Kong and Thor wrote a Preview on two exciting new papers from the labs of Jose Silva (Guangzhou) and Jun Wu (UT Southwestern) in the October 2025 issue of Cell Stem Cell. In this piece, we discuss how they independently developed refined strategies to assemble human post-implantation embryo models with greater accuracy and efficiency.
Take a look at our Preview using the following link: https://lnkd.in/gZWa67WK
The original study from Jose Silva’s lab: https://tinyurl.com/ymt6nya7
The original study from Jun Wu’s lab: https://tinyurl.com/5hu7z2k8
The Theunissen Lab celebrated the start of 2025 with a lunch at Katie’s Pizza in Ballpark Village, next to the home of the St. Louis Cardinals. It was also a perfect opportunity to welcome our postdoc Kong and our new rotation student, Jeeseung. Here are a few photos:
Thor will present our latest advances on building human embryo and placenta models from naive pluripotent stem cells at the Keystone Symposium on Stem Cell Models for Embryology organized by Aryeh Warmflash and Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz in Pacific Grove, California, from February 7th-8th, 2024. More information about the meeting can be found here.
Thor presented our latest studies at the Mini-Symposium on Pluripotent Stem Cells at the University of Georgia. Big thanks to the graduate students in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology for the kind invite and great to learn about the exciting work of Marcos Simoes-Costa (Harvard), Kamil Godula (UCSD), and Mark Tomishima (Blue Rock)!
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