By reprogramming human fibroblasts into pluripotent stem cells with somatic cell nuclear transfer, scientists have come up with a viable alternative to iPSCs.
By reprogramming human fibroblasts into pluripotent stem cells with somatic cell nuclear transfer, scientists have come up with a viable alternative to iPSCs.
This dramatic science fiction film follows a grieving father using his research to understand his infant son’s gruesome death—and explores the culture and ethics of science along the way.
A surgeon sues the Nobel Assembly for excluding him from last year’s prize awarded for regenerative science, but stem cell scientists are skeptical of his claims.
Disruptions in the interaction between nuclear and mitochondrial DNA can lead to deficiencies in the mitochondrial energy-generating process, affecting fitness.
Tuberculosis bacteria find shelter from drugs and the body’s defenses in bone marrow stem cells.
Scientists use virus-free gene therapy on patient-derived stem cells to repair spinal muscular atrophy in mice.
Reprogrammed stem cells are not attacked by the immune system, or are they?
Cocaine-using rat fathers pass epigenetic changes on to their sons that make them resistant to coke addiction.
Tumor cells can exhibit different behaviors despite being genetically indistinguishable.
Two former Geron CEOs make a bid for the company’s defunct human embryonic stem cell business.