There has been quite a lot of pubs on research on pluripotent stem cells published lately. These include some more surprising findings such as a potential role for pluripotency-related programming in neural crest development.

Here the week’s recommended reads.
Neural Crest research: ties to factors involved in pluripotent stem cells
Pubs on pluripotent stem cells
Cancer stem cells
Nature Reviews in Cancer, Linking EMT programmes to normal and neoplastic epithelial stem cells.