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Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Germany have recently discovered a new holy grail of stem cell science-a concoction of growth factors that directly converts fully differentiated somatic cells into multipotent somatic stem cells. While previous research has focused on the use of pluripotent stem cells, their high degree of plasticity [...]
I read a great article in the Guardian over the weekend describing a Peta contest that will award $1 Million to the first group of scientists who successfully produce cultured meat in commercial quantities. Here’s a BBC video from a few months ago describing the initiative. Here are a few interesting facts about cultured meat: [...]
Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have announced a new technique to reprogramme human cells, such as skin cells, into stem cells. Their process increases the efficiency of cell reprogramming by one hundred-fold and generates cells of a higher quality at a faster rate. Until now cells have been reprogrammed using four specific regulatory [...]
