The EuroStemCell consortium has produced a really excellent 16-minute video telling the story of the extraordinary discovery of induced pluripotent stem cells. You can watch it by clicking on the window below, or by going to the EuroStemCell website
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Discovery puts designer dopamine neurons within reach
Science Daily reports that Parkinson’s disease researchers at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo have developed a way to ramp up the conversion of skin cells into dopamine neurons. They have identified — and found a way to overcome -a key obstacle to such cellular conversions. At the…
Major Discovery in Stem Cell Research?
The 29th January edition of the Guardian reports that a radical and remarkably easy way to make cells that can grow into any tissue in the body has been developed by scientists in Japan. The feat has been hailed as a major discovery by researchers familiar with the work, and if it can be repeated…
Stem Cell Programming Advance
Scientists based at the University of Edinburgh’s MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine (CRM) and Anne Rowling Clinic have taken a vital step forward in understanding how cells from skin tissue can be reprogrammed to become stem cells. The study of how these cells – known as induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) – were reprogrammed has…