Induced pluripotent stem cells in blue and green derived from a woman's skin
Kathrin Plath lab, University of California, Los Angeles, via CIRM
These induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) were derived from a woman's skin. Blue show nuclei. Green show a protein found in iPS cells but not in skin cells (NANOG). The red dots show the inactivated X chromosome in each cell. These cells can develop into a variety of cell types. Image and caption information courtesy of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Related to image 3278.
Kathrin Plath lab, University of California, Los Angeles, via CIRM