by Stem Cell Network | Oct 14, 2011
Every year at the World Stem Cell Summit, the Genetics Policy Institute (GPI) hands out a number of Stem Cell Action Awards to recognize organizations and individuals who have positively impacted the stem cell community. This year in Pasadena, California, GPI awarded...
by Stem Cell Network | Oct 12, 2011
We’re changing! We’ve added some new factors (contributions from the Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine) and now we’re differentiating into something new! The new blog will keep your favourite bloggers, but will add more...
by Angela C. H. McDonald | Oct 6, 2011
Well before the creation of human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), a handful of researchers were using another reprogramming technique, somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), with the hopes of deriving patient-specific pluripotent stem cell lines. The...
by Lisa Willemse | Sep 21, 2011
This morning’s news scan turned up yet another sad tale about the dangers of unproven stem cell therapies and a warning to consumers to once again be skeptical of the claims made by the many unscrupulous clinics operating abroad. For the most part, the article...
by David Kent | Sep 14, 2011
by David Kent A prize-winning author sits down in an Edinburgh pub across from a world famous stem cell biologist. Together they begin to ponder mankind’s desire for eternal youth. Though it may sound like the first lines of a joke, it is the opening scene of a...
by Angela C. H. McDonald | Sep 2, 2011
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have great memories. They can remember whether they started out as a skin fibroblast, a blood cell or a pancreatic beta cell. Following reprogramming, iPSCs retain epigenetic (DNA packaging) signatures typical of their somatic...
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