A team at Kyoto University around Mitinoru Saitou and including CiRA succeded to differentiate in vitro human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) into incipient mesoderm-like cells (iMeLCs), which robustly generated human primordial germ cell-like cells (hPGCLCs) that could be purified using the surface markers EpCAM and INTEGRINα6.
JST news release, July 17, 2015
Team at Kyoto University succeeds to generate human germ cells from pluripotent stem cells in vitro