Wired has a couple of articles on stem cell news. One reports that the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, launched as a funding source for scientists working with embryonic stem cells, will now award as much as $13 million for research into "techniques that do not destroy human embryos," according to the story. "It's a shift from the institute's original goal of funding mostly embryonic stem cell research." The other story focuses on recent findings from Shinya Yamanaka, a scientist who led a group that successfully turned skin cells into embryonic-seeming stem cells. He just published work in Nature Biotechnology that adds to the earlier results by eliminating a gene known to cause cancer from the final product.
Updates from Stem Cell Central
Dec 04, 2007