Main description:

Human Embryonic Stem Cells in Development, Volume 129, the latest release in the Current Topics in Developmental Biology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on topics such as recapitulating pancreas development from human embryonic stem cells in a dish, modeling mammalian gastrulation with embryonic stem cells, and a section on what stem cells tell us about human germ cell biology. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.

Contents:

1. Modeling Mammalian Gastrulation With Embryonic Stem Cells Eric D. Siggia and Aryeh Warmflash 2. What Can Stem Cell Models Tell Us About Human Germ Cell Biology? Naoko Irie, Anastasiya Sybirna and M. Azim Surani 3. From Human Pluripotent Stem Cells to Cortical Circuits Marc Astick and Pierre Vanderhaeghen 4. Studying the Brain in a Dish: 3D Cell Culture Models of Human Brain Development and Disease Juliana Brown, Giorgia Quadrato and Paola Arlotta 5. The Long Road to Making Muscle In Vitro Olivier Pourquie, Ziad Al Tanoury and Jerome Chal 6. Recapitulating and Deciphering Human Pancreas Development From Human Pluripotent Stem Cells in a Dish Maja B.K. Petersen, Carla A.C. Goncalves, Yung H. Kim and Anne Grapin-Botton