Tag: pluripotent

  • Nation & World

    Researchers create embryonic stem cells without embryo

    Researchers have created embryonic stem cells without an embryo. This discovery of a novel reprogramming method of adult cells, without introducing external genetic material, could dramatically shift stem cell research.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Two studies prove value of iPS cells

    A team of Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers, in collaboration with scientists at Columbia University, have demonstrated that many iPS cells (stem cells created by reprogramming adult cells) are the equal of human embryonic stem cells in creating human motor neurons, the cells destroyed in a number of neurological diseases, including Parkinson’s.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    ‘Another set of fingers’

    An interdisciplinary group of leading Harvard geneticists and stem cell researchers has found a new genetic aspect of cell reprogramming that may ultimately help in the fine-tuning of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) into specific cell types.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard Stem Cell Institute – First 5 years

    What has the Harvard Stem Cell Institute accomplished in its first 5 years?

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Experiment advances cell reprogramming understanding

    The announcement last year by scientists in Japan, at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI), and at the Whitehead Institute that they had each — independently — coaxed adult cells into reverting to an embryonic stem cell-like state was arguably the biggest news in developmental biology since the cloning of Dolly the ewe.

    4 minutes