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ReviewStem cell reports2025

20 years of stemness: From stem cells to hypertranscription and back.

Yun-Kyo Kim, Miguel Ramalho-Santos

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Review in Stem cell reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Yun-Kyo KimProgram in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto ON M5G 0A4, Canada; Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto ON M5G 1X5, Canada. Electronic address: yun-kyo.kim@sickkids.ca.
Miguel Ramalho-SantosLunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto ON M5T 3L9, Canada; Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto ON M5G 1X5, Canada. Electronic address: mrsantos@lunenfeld.ca.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transcriptional profiling of stem cells came of age at the beginning of the century with the use of microarrays to analyze cell populations in bulk. Since then, stem cell transcriptomics has become increasingly sophisticated, notably with the recent widespread use of single-cell RNA sequencing. Here, we provide a perspective on how an early signature of genes upregulated in embryonic and adult stem cells, identified using microarrays over 20 years ago, serendipitously led to the recent discovery that stem/progenitor cells across organs are in a state of hypertranscription, a global elevation of the transcriptome. Looking back, we find that the 2002 stemness signature is a robust marker of stem cell hypertranscription, even though it was developed well before it was known what hypertranscription meant or how to detect it. We anticipate that studies of stem cell hypertranscription will be rich in novel insights in physiological and disease contexts for years to come.

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Stem CellsTranscription, GeneticTranscriptomeAdult Stem CellsAnimalsGene Expression ProfilingHumansabsolute scalingadult stem cellscell number normalizationembryonic stem cellshypertranscriptionregenerationRNA-seqsingle-cell RNA-seqstemness

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PMID39919752
PMCPMC11960510

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