induced pluripotent stem cells

Almost 60 percent of people in a new study on attitudes in the US felt comfortable using animals to grow human organs from induced pluripotent stem cells.

Biologists have published a DIY recipe for human induced pluripotent stem cell maintenance, which they estimate costs 3 percent of commercial media prices.

A case study of a family demonstrates that different genetic mutations from the two parents cause severe heart disease symptoms in the children.

After growing in culture for a few months, the mini-brains produced rhythmic neural activity that strengthened over time.

Insulin-producing cells grown in the lab could offer a functional cure for the disease.

Age-related macular degeneration patients who received injections of retinal cells derived from donors’ induced pluripotent stem cells have maintained their level of eyesight for a year.

Changes in gene expression also hint at how the brains of people with ASD develop differently from those of other people.

Surgeons will inject approximately 5 million dopamine-producing progenitor cells into patients’ brains.

The $340 million, 30,000-square-foot center will produce cells for therapeutic applications.

Under certain conditions, skin organoids including hair follicles can be generated from mouse pluripotent stem cells, researchers report.

iPSCs created through the reprogramming of human somatic cells retain genomic marks of the donor’s age.

Report finds that pathologist involved in anonymous defamation case committed multiple acts of misconduct; growing eggs from stem cells; neutrophils’ role in metastasis; convergent evolution in birds

Legal expert Henry Greely envisions a world in which advances in biotechnology obviate the need for sexual reproduction as we know it.

Organoids grown from genetically edited stem cells are giving scientists a new tool to screen drugs and test treatments.

The reprogrammed germ-like cells were unable to fertilize eggs, however. 

Researchers create lab-grown mouse skin complete with hair follicles and sweat glands.

Researchers create lab-grown mouse skin complete with hair follicles and sweat glands.  

A tour of efforts to automate the production and differentiation of induced pluripotent stem cells