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    PTEN deficiency reprogrammes human neural stem cells towards a glioblastoma stem cell-like phenotype

    PTEN is a tumour suppressor frequently mutated in many types of cancers. Here we show that targeted disruption of PTEN leads to neoplastic transformation of human neural stem cells (NSCs), but not mesenchymal ...

    Shunlei Duan, Guohong Yuan, **aomeng Liu, Ruotong Ren, **gyi Li in Nature Communications (2015)

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    Converted neural cells: induced to a cure?

    Many neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s disease (PD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and others often occur as a result of progressive loss of structure or function of neurons. Recently, many...

    Weiqi Zhang, Shunlei Duan, Ying Li, **uling Xu, **g Qu, Weizhou Zhang in Protein & Cell (2012)