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Died: January 11, 2021. LIONEL Gossman, late Emeritus Professor at Princeton University in New Jersey, America, was described by his colleague Francois Rigolot as “one of the great humanists and scholar teachers of his generation.” Born in Glasgow in 1929, Lionel grew up in Pollokshields and after schooling graduated MA in French and German from Glasgow University in 1951. He completed his diplome d’etudes superieures at the Sorbonne the following year and graduated Ph.D from Oxford in 1958. A short period of teaching at Glasgow was followed by a move to John Hopkins University, Baltimore, where, in 1975, he was appointed Chair of the Department of Romance Languages. He left for Princeton in 1976, initially in a similar capacity, and retired as Emeritus Professor in 1999.
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New criteria bring stem cell research one step closer to long-sought goal
Creating stem cells that can give rise to any cell type in the early embryo and its supporting structures, including the placenta: some call it ‘the holy grail’ of stem cell research. An international team of researchers offer new criteria to determine whether a mouse stem cell line has this much-wanted ability, known as totipotency.
Fluorescent image showing labelled cells in mouse embryos and gene expression, where white is each cell of the embryo, blue cells are descendants of a single totipotent cell that was combined with an unlabelled embryo, and magenta is the SOX2 and SOX17 genes showing cells that will give rise to the embryo proper or foetus. The blue cells can be seen in both the embryonic inner part of the embryo as well as the outer extra-embryonic placental progenitor part of the embryo. Credit: Eszter Posfai and Janet Rossant.