Sequenom this week announced the appointment of Richard Lerner to its board of directors. Lerner is president of the Scripps Research Institute. Additionally, he servers on the boards of Kraft Foods and Opko Health, formerly eXegenics.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the US Food and Drug Administration may soon allow clinical trials that involve transplanting pig organs into humans.
Harvard Medical School researchers suggest people should bank stool samples when they are young to transplant when they later develop age-related diseases.
In Science this week: unique cell populations found within breast milk, 100 transcriptionally distinct cell populations uncovered in the cerebral cortex, and more.