Assertion: embryonic stem cell | /r/HasProperty | manipulated in culture
Facets:
value: to express the pdx-1 gene
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Last year, Melton, Nissim Benvinisty of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and Josef Itskovitz-Eldor of the Technion in Haifa, Israel, reported that human embryonic stem cells could be manipulated in culture to express the PDX-1 gene, a gene that controls insulin transcription .