The image shows colonies of embryonic and iPS cells, taken taken in the lab of Jeanne Loring at The Scripps Research institute. In the most recent face-off between Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and embryonic stem cells (ES cells), ES cells came out ahead; iPSCs aren't the same as ES cells even when they carry … Continue reading iPSCs and embryonic stem cells similar but not the same
Month: May 2010
UC Irvine Opens the Sue and Bill Gross Hall
On Friday, May 14 UC Irvine held the grand opening of their newly constructed Sue &Bill Gross Hall. According to a story on the University's web site:The $80-million, 100,000-square-foot building was designed to facilitate contact between patients in the first-floor clinic and rehabilitation center and stem cell researchers in first-, second- and third-floor labs.(Image: Hans … Continue reading UC Irvine Opens the Sue and Bill Gross Hall
Questions About iPS Cells
In his blog, CIRM grantee Paul Knoepfler at UC Davis posted a response to the journal Stem Cells, which had published a list of the most pressing questions about iPS cells:“What I found most striking is that not one of their 10 questions had anything to do with safety or tumorigenicity, the question I rank … Continue reading Questions About iPS Cells
Protein Aids Bone Healing
At the intersection of stem cell research and the world of Harry Potter you'll find new work by CIRM grantees at Stanford University School of Medicine that can speed the rate of bone healing by three times. It's not quite Skele-gro, but it's close, at least in mice.The research is based on a protein called … Continue reading Protein Aids Bone Healing