This Week in Nature

Mar 06, 2009

Stem-cell researchers led by Andreas Nagy at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto and Keisuke Kaji at the University of Edinburgh have bypassed using viral vectors to create iPS cells by inserting pluripotency genes into a "cassette" that also contained the transposon piggyBAC. The two papers appear in the early online edition of Nature.

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The Scan

Maybe Not to Eat…

Mainichi reports that 43 percent of Japanese individuals said they did not want to eat agricultural products that had been modified using gene-editing tools.

Moving From DC to KC

Two US Department of Agriculture research departments are moving to the Kansas City area, according to the Washington Post.

Just for Fun?

Slate's Jane Hu compares some at-home genetic tests to astrology.

PLOS Has Skin Cancer Risk Scores and More This Week

In PLOS this week: analysis of polygenic risk scores for skin cancer, chronic pain GWAS, and more.

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