Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Remarkably Efficient New Method For Generating Human Stem Cells

Medical News Today, Article Date: 02 Oct 2010 - 0:00 PDT

The ability to efficiently generate patient-specific stem cells from differentiated cells and then reliably direct them to form specialized cells (like neurons or muscle) has tremendous therapeutic potential for replacing diseased or damaged tissues... read more


Technology Review, Friday, October 1, 2010

A New Way to Make Stem Cells

Using RNA instead of DNA could avoid the health risks--and the political pitfalls--of stem-cell treatments.

A Harvard researcher has developed a way to make pluripotent stem cells that solves several of the major impediments to using them to treat human diseases. read more...