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A study finds that the genomes of swine and human flu viruses associated with a county fair in Ohio are almost perfectly matched, suggesting interspecies transmission.
Scientists identify a false assumption of standard gene expression analyses that could lead to the reappraisal of many prior studies.
Viral vectors used to carry transcription factors that de-differentiate cells into a stem-cell-like state are themselves a key factor in efficient reprogramming.
Swapping chromosomes from one human egg to another could eliminate mitochondrial DNA mutations that cause disease.
The researcher who falsely claimed to treat human patients with their own stem cells is dismissed, but insists that he did perform the procedure on one patient.
J. Craig Venter plans to develop a machine to find and sequence DNA on Mars, but another genomics mogul, Jonathan Rothberg, may beat him to it.
Scientists use human stem cells to show that nuclear defects may play a role in Parkinson’s disease, and suggest a way to reverse the problem.
Research purporting to cure patients with heart disease using induced pluripotent stem cells may be a fraud.
Arlen Specter, a long-serving senator and outspoken advocate for biomedical research, has passed away at the age of 82.
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