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Overview

Jun Wu is a researcher affiliated with The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with substantial contributions to Medicine.

The main subfields of their research include Molecular Biology, Genetics, Surgery, Rheumatology, and Neurology. Across these areas, Jun Wu's research covers key topics such as Pluripotent Stem Cells Research, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, Renal and related cancers, Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Animal Genetics and Reproduction, and Glycogen Storage Diseases and Myoclonus.

Jun Wu has published extensively in several notable scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cell, Cell Stem Cell, Nature, and Cell Reports. The research output in these journals reflects a focus on stem cells, developmental biology, and related genetic engineering technologies.

  • Blastocyst-like structures generated from human pluripotent stem cells (2021, Nature)
  • Derivation of Intermediate Pluripotent Stem Cells Amenable to Primordial Germ Cell Specification (2020, Cell Stem Cell)
  • Chimeric contribution of human extended pluripotent stem cells to monkey embryos ex vivo (2021, Cell)
  • Modeling post-implantation stages of human development into early organogenesis with stem-cell-derived peri-gastruloids (2023, Cell)
  • Primate gastrulation and early organogenesis at single-cell resolution (2022, Nature)

Their collaborative network includes frequent co-authors with whom they have published numerous studies, including:

  • Leqian Yu
  • Masahiro Sakurai
  • Yulei Wei
  • Daniel A. Schmitz
  • Carlos A. Pinzón-Arteaga

Best Publications

  • Longitudinal characteristics of lymphocyte responses and cytokine profiles in the peripheral blood of SARS-CoV-2 infected patients.

    Jing Liu;Sumeng Li;Jia Liu;Boyun Liang

  • In vivo genome editing via CRISPR/Cas9 mediated homology-independent targeted integration

    Keiichiro Suzuki;Yuji Tsunekawa;Reyna Hernández-Benítez;Reyna Hernández-Benítez;Jun Wu;Jun Wu

  • Correction of a pathogenic gene mutation in human embryos

    Hong Ma;Nuria Marti-Gutierrez;Sang Wook Park;Jun Wu

  • Readers of histone modifications

    Miyong Yun;Jun Wu;Jerry L Workman;Bing Li

  • Interspecies Chimerism with Mammalian Pluripotent Stem Cells

    Jun Wu;Aida Platero-Luengo;Masahiro Sakurai;Atsushi Sugawara

  • Derivation of Pluripotent Stem Cells with In Vivo Embryonic and Extraembryonic Potency

    Yang Yang;Bei Liu;Jun Xu;Jinlin Wang

  • Blastocyst-like structures generated from human pluripotent stem cells

    Leqian Yu;Yulei Wei;Yulei Wei;Jialei Duan;Daniel A. Schmitz

  • Genesis, Evolution and Prevalence of H5N6 Avian Influenza Viruses in China

    Yuhai Bi;Quanjiao Chen;Qianli Wang;Jianjun Chen

  • ZMYND11 links histone H3.3K36me3 to transcription elongation and tumour suppression

    Hong Wen;Yuanyuan Li;Yuanxin Xi;Shiming Jiang

  • Mitochondrial replacement in human oocytes carrying pathogenic mitochondrial DNA mutations

    Eunju Kang;Eunju Kang;Jun Wu;Nuria Marti Gutierrez;Amy Koski

  • Selective elimination of mitochondrial mutations in the germline by genome editing

    Pradeep Reddy;Alejandro Ocampo;Keiichiro Suzuki;Jinping Luo

  • SIRT6 safeguards human mesenchymal stem cells from oxidative stress by coactivating NRF2.

    Huize Pan;Di Guan;Xiaomeng Liu;Jingyi Li

  • Brains, Genes, and Primates

    Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte;Edward M. Callaway;Sarah J. Caddick;Patricia Churchland

  • The Bacterial Mobile Resistome Transfer Network Connecting the Animal and Human Microbiomes.

    Yongfei Hu;Xi Yang;Jing Li;Na Lv

  • Transcriptionally active HERV-H retrotransposons demarcate topologically associating domains in human pluripotent stem cells

    Yanxiao Zhang;Ting Li;Sebastian Preissl;Sebastian Preissl;Maria Luisa Amaral

  • An alternative pluripotent state confers interspecies chimaeric competency

    Jun Wu;Daiji Okamura;Mo Li;Keiichiro Suzuki

  • Efficient derivation of stable primed pluripotent embryonic stem cells from bovine blastocysts.

    Yanina Soledad Bogliotti;Jun Wu;Jun Wu;Jun Wu;Marcela Vilarino;Daiji Okamura

  • Longitudinal Characteristics of Lymphocyte Responses and Cytokine Profiles in the Peripheral Blood of SARS-CoV-2 Infected Patients

    Jing Liu;Sumeng Li;Jia Liu;Boyun Liang

  • Correction of a pathogenic gene mutation in human embryos

    Ma H;Marti-Gutierrez N;Park Sw;Wu J

  • An alternative pluripotent state confers interspecies chimaeric competency.

    Daiji Okamura;Jun Wu;Mo Li;Keiichiro Suzuki

Frequent Co-Authors

Mengji Lu
Mengji Lu University of Duisburg-Essen
Ulf Dittmer
Ulf Dittmer University of Duisburg-Essen
Jingting Jiang
Jingting Jiang Soochow University
Guang-Hui Liu
Guang-Hui Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Concepcion Rodriguez Esteban
Concepcion Rodriguez Esteban Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Xiaodong Li
Xiaodong Li University of Virginia
Michael Roggendorf
Michael Roggendorf Technical University of Munich
Shoukhrat Mitalipov
Shoukhrat Mitalipov Oregon Health & Science University
Changsheng Xie
Changsheng Xie Huazhong University of Science and Technology

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