Two pieces of news came out today about reprogrammed iPS cells — one showing a new way of making them and the other suggesting that they may not be all they’re cracked up to be. First, the new technique. A team at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute in La Jolla figured out a way of removing … Continue reading iPS developments – faster creation, but questions raised

Scripps Research scientists have created mature heart muscle cells directly from skin cells.Eventually, directly reprogramming one type of adult cell into another is going to be old news. For now, the entire field is new enough that each time scientists pluck one adult cell type and coerce it to become another, it’s exciting.The most recent … Continue reading Skin cells become beating heart cells in a lab dish