Human Embryonic Stem Cells (IMAGE)

Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Human Embryonic Stem Cells

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This image shows human embryonic stem cells that have differentiated into type II alveolar lung epithelial cells (green). A large portion of these transformed cells express surfactant protein B (red), which indicates that they are functional type II cells.

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Sarah Xuelian Huang, Ph.D., at the Columbia Center for Translational Immunology, Columbia University Medical Center

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