Early onset preeclampsia in a model for human placental trophoblast

Ashish Jain and Geetu Tuteja are co-authors on a study led by Roberts, Ezashi, Schulz, and Schust from the University of Missouri, Columbia: Early onset preeclampsia in a model for human placental trophoblast. In this study, induced pluripotent stem cells were generated from umbilical cords of normal pregnancies and those complicated by early onset preeclampsia. These stem cells were converted into trophoblast in order to study early pregnancy. Ashish Jain carried out bioinformatics analysis of transcriptome data generated in the study, to help identify genes linked to abnormal invasion in early onset preeclampsia. Congratulations to all authors!