Tag: RIKEN

  • Nation & World

    A new stem cell advance

    Collaborating with scientists elsewhere, Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers have devised two methods for using stem cells to generate the type of neurons that help regulate behavioral and basic physiological functions in the human body, such as obesity and hypertension, sleep, mood, and some social disorders.

    3 minutes
  • 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