2.5 kb of human VASA upstream of the first codon was cloned into pENTR 5′-TOPO. eGFP was fused 1kb downstream of the last codon of human VASA, and cloned into pENTR/D-TOPO. Cloned plasmids were recombined27 (link) to create pLVGV. Lentiviral supernatant was produced, hESCs were transduced overnight on matrigel in conditioned medium and subsequently selected with geneticin (200ng/ml) for 7 days. Selected hESCs were differentiated for times indicated and harvested by brief treatment with Collagenase IV and then TrypLEExpress (Invitrogen). The cell suspension was prepared in differentiation medium for FACS with a MoFlow or BD cell sorter.