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Michael D. West is affiliated with Advanced Cell Technology in the United States. Their research spans multiple subfields within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, contributing to areas including molecular biology, physiology, biomedical engineering, epidemiology, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The primary topics of Michael D. West's scientific work focus on pluripotent stem cells research, telomeres, telomerase, and senescence, CRISPR and genetic engineering, 3D printing in biomedical research, adipose tissue and metabolism, adipokines, inflammation, and metabolic diseases, as well as cardiovascular disease and adiposity.

Michael D. West has published extensively across a variety of scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), iScience, Genes, Biomedicines, and Preprints.org.

Significant recent papers from their body of work include:

  • No Time to Age: Uncoupling Aging from Chronological Time, 2021, Genes
  • Transplantation of committed pre-adipocytes from brown adipose tissue improves whole-body glucose homeostasis, 2024, iScience
  • No Time to Age: Uncoupling Aging from Chronological Time, 2021, Preprints.org
  • Don't abandon 14-day limit on embryo research, it makes sense, 2021, Nature
  • Clonal and Scalable Endothelial Progenitor Cell Lines from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells, 2023, Biomedicines

Michael D. West's frequent collaborators include Hal Sternberg, David LaRocca, Nafees N. Malik, Jieun Lee, and Ivan Labat.

Best Publications

  • Specific association of human telomerase activity with immortal cells and cancer

    Nam W. Kim;Mieczyslaw A. Piatyszek;Karen R. Prowse;Calvin B. Harley

  • The RNA component of human telomerase

    Junli Feng;Walter D. Funk;Sy Shi Wang;Scott L. Weinrich

  • Extension of Cell Life-Span and Telomere Length in Animals Cloned from Senescent Somatic Cells

    Robert P. Lanza;Jose B. Cibelli;Catherine Blackwell;Vincent J. Cristofalo

  • Telomerase, Cell Immortality, and Cancer

    C. B. Harley;N. W. Kim;K. R. Prowse;S. L. Weinrich

  • ATM‐dependent telomere loss in aging human diploid fibroblasts and DNA damage lead to the post‐translational activation of p53 protein involving poly(ADP‐ribose) polymerase

    Homayoun Vaziri;Michael D. West;Richard C. Allsopp;Timothy S. Davison

  • Shortened telomeres in the expanded Cd28-cd8+ cell subset in Hiv disease implicate replicative senescence in Hiv pathogenesis

    Rita B. Effros;Richard Allsopp;Choy-pik Chiu;Mary Ann Hausner

  • Cloning of an endangered species (Bos gaurus) using interspecies nuclear transfer.

    Robert P. Lanza;Jose B. Cibelli;Francisca Diaz;Carlos T. Moraes

  • Human embryonic stem cells derived without feeder cells

    Irina Klimanskaya;Young Chung;Lorraine Meisner;Julie Johnson

  • Derivation and comparative assessment of retinal pigment epithelium from human embryonic stem cells using transcriptomics.

    Irina Klimanskaya;Jason Hipp;Kourous A. Rezai;Michael West

  • Parthenogenetic stem cells in nonhuman primates

    Jose B. Cibelli;Kathleen A. Grant;Karen B. Chapman;Kerrianne Cunniff

  • Generation of histocompatible tissues using nuclear transplantation

    Robert Lanza

  • The health profile of cloned animals

    Jose B Cibelli;Keith H Campbell;Keith H Campbell;Keith H Campbell;George E Seidel;George E Seidel;George E Seidel;Michael D West;Michael D West;Michael D West

  • Feeder-free culture method for embryonic stem cells or primate primordial stem cells

    Andrea G. Bodnar;Choy-Pik Chiu;Joseph D. Gold;Margaret Inokuma

  • Therapy and diagnosis of conditions related to telomere length and/or telomerase activity

    Michael D. West;Jerry Shay;Woodring Wright;Elizabeth H. Blackburn

  • Methods and materials for the growth of primate-derived primordial stem cells

    Andrea G. Bodnar;Choy-Pik Chiu;Joseph D. Gold;Margaret Inokuma

  • Rapid Communication: Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer in Humans: Pronuclear and Early Embryonic Development

    Jose B. Cibelli;Ann A. Kiessling;Kerrianne Cunniff;Charlotte Richards

  • Human Therapeutic Cloning

    Robert P. Lanza;Jose B. Cibelli;Michael D. West

  • Nonhuman primate parthenogenetic stem cells.

    Kent E. Vrana;Jason D. Hipp;Ashley M. Goss;Brian A. McCool

  • Methods for making and using reprogrammed human somatic cell nuclei and autologous and isogenic human stem cells

    Jose Cibelli;Michael D. West;Keith Campbell

  • Human Embryonic Stem Cells

    Ian Wilmut;Michael D. West;Robert P. Lanza;John D. Gearhart

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Lanza
Robert Lanza Astellas Pharma (Japan)
Jose B. Cibelli
Jose B. Cibelli Michigan State University
Woodring E. Wright
Woodring E. Wright The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Jerry W. Shay
Jerry W. Shay The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Calvin B. Harley
Calvin B. Harley Geron (United States)
George E. Seidel
George E. Seidel Colorado State University
John D. Gearhart
John D. Gearhart University of Pennsylvania
Elizabeth H. Blackburn
Elizabeth H. Blackburn University of California, San Francisco
Alan Colman
Alan Colman Harvard University
Judith Campisi
Judith Campisi Buck Institute for Research on Aging

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