Embryonic stem cell identity grounded in the embryo

Oct4 is required for lineage priming in the developing inner cell mass of the mouse blastocyst

(2014) G. C. Le Bin et al.   DEVELOPMENT

The ability of inner-cell-mass cells to self-renew as embryonic stem cells is acquired following epiblast specification

(2014) Thorsten Boroviak et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Derivation of naive human embryonic stem cells

(2014) C. B. Ware et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Anatomy of a blastocyst: Cell behaviors driving cell fate choice and morphogenesis in the early mouse embryo

(2013) Nadine Schrode et al.   GENESIS

Derivation of novel human ground state naive pluripotent stem cells

(2013) Ohad Gafni et al.   NATURE

Cell-to-cell expression variability followed by signal reinforcement progressively segregates early mouse lineages

(2013) Yusuke Ohnishi et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Naive and Primed Pluripotent States

(2009) Jennifer Nichols et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Distinct sequential cell behaviours direct primitive endoderm formation in the mouse blastocyst

(2008) B. Plusa et al.   DEVELOPMENT

The ground state of embryonic stem cell self-renewal

(2008) Qi-Long Ying et al.   NATURE