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In particular, we examine early events such as the  generation of pluripotent stem cells, somatic and germ cell lineages and pathologies that arise in development."},{"lastName":"Xie","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Ph.D., Biochemistry"}],"primaryAppointment":"Ph.D., Biochemistry","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=19942&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Kathleen Xie","firstName":"Kathleen","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Kathleen_Xie","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Wossidlo","clinicalFocus":[],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Stem Cell"}],"primaryAppointment":"Postdoctoral Research fellow, Stem Cell","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=30651&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Mark Wossidlo","firstName":"Mark","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Mark_Wossidlo","researchInterest":""},{"lastName":"Artandi","clinicalFocus":[{"focus":"Medical Oncology"}],"appointments":[{"appointment":"Professor,Medicine - Hematology"},{"appointment":"Member,Stanford Cancer Institute"},{"appointment":"Member,Bio-X"},{"appointment":"Professor,Biochemistry"}],"primaryAppointment":"Professor,Medicine - Hematology","imageUrl":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/viewImage?facultyId=3848&type=small&showNoImage","displayName":"Steven Artandi","firstName":"Steven","href":"http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Steven_Artandi","researchInterest":"Telomeres are nucleoprotein complexes that protect chromosome ends and shorten with cell division and aging.  We are interested in how telomere shortening influences cancer, stem cell function and genomic stability.  Telomerase is a reverse transcriptase that synthesizes telomere repeats and is expressed in stem cells and in cancer.  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