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Malkiel Cohen

Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research , MIT
Verified email at wi.mit.edu
Cited by 4864

[PDF][PDF] YY1 is a structural regulator of enhancer-promoter loops

…, NM Hannett, DS Day, BJ Abraham, MA Cohen… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
There is considerable evidence that chromosome structure plays important roles in gene
control, but we have limited understanding of the proteins that contribute to structural …

[PDF][PDF] Directed differentiation of human embryonic stem cells into functional retinal pigment epithelium cells

…, E Ben-Shushan, I Hemo, N Yachimovich-Cohen… - Cell stem cell, 2009 - cell.com
Dysfunction and loss of retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) leads to degeneration of photoreceptors
in age-related macular degeneration and subtypes of retinitis pigmentosa. Human …

[PDF][PDF] Molecular criteria for defining the naive human pluripotent state

…, H Wang, A Iouranova, M Imbeault, J Duc, MA Cohen… - Cell stem cell, 2016 - cell.com
Recent studies have aimed to convert cultured human pluripotent cells to a naive state, but
it remains unclear to what extent the resulting cells recapitulate in vivo naive pluripotency. …

[PDF][PDF] Impaired autophagy in the lipid-storage disorder Niemann-Pick type C1 disease

…, D Maetzel, AHM Ng, JP Cassady, MA Cohen… - Cell reports, 2013 - cell.com
Autophagy dysfunction has been implicated in misfolded protein accumulation and cellular
toxicity in several diseases. Whether alterations in autophagy also contribute to the pathology …

The lamina propria of adult human oral mucosa harbors a novel stem cell population

…, S Treves, M Yafee, H Rachima, Y Gafni, MA Cohen… - Stem …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The highly regenerative capacity of the human adult oral mucosa suggests the existence of
a robust stem cell (SC) population in its lamina propria (OMLP). The purpose of this study …

[PDF][PDF] A systematic approach to identify candidate transcription factors that control cell identity

AC D'Alessio, ZP Fan, KJ Wert, P Baranov, MA Cohen… - Stem cell reports, 2015 - cell.com
Hundreds of transcription factors (TFs) are expressed in each cell type, but cell identity can
be induced through the activity of just a small number of core TFs. Systematic identification of …

Gliomas display a microRNA expression profile reminiscent of neural precursor cells

…, O Einstein, N Fainstein, MA Cohen, MA Cohen… - Neuro …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Gliomas express many genes that play a role in neural precursor cells (NPCs), but no direct
comparison between glioma and stem cell (SC) gene expression profiles has been …

Mesenchymal and adrenergic cell lineage states in neuroblastoma possess distinct immunogenic phenotypes

…, R Dries, M Chen, S Zhang, L Soriano, MA Cohen… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Apart from the anti-GD2 antibody, immunotherapy for neuroblastoma has had limited
success due to immune evasion mechanisms, coupled with an incomplete understanding of …

Intravital imaging of mouse embryos

Q Huang, MA Cohen, FC Alsina, G Devlin, A Garrett… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Embryonic development is a complex process that is unamenable to direct observation. In
this study, we implanted a window to the mouse uterus to visualize the developing embryo …

[PDF][PDF] Dynamic enhancer DNA methylation as basis for transcriptional and cellular heterogeneity of ESCs

…, JE Henninger, J Drotar, N Rosenau, MA Cohen… - Molecular cell, 2019 - cell.com
Variable levels of DNA methylation have been reported at tissue-specific differential methylation
regions (DMRs) overlapping enhancers, including super-enhancers (SEs) associated …