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>Translating Thomson’s “Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Somatic Cells”

Posted by bnuckols ⋅ November 21, 2007 ⋅ Leave a comment

>Yu, Thomson, and all, from Wisconsin published their paper on reprogrammed induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) cells from adult cells online in Science Express online, yesterday, just after the Yamanaka/Takahashi team from Japan published theirs in the journal, Cell. (The Thomson paper was not scheduled to go live online until the 22nd.) As discussed on this … Continue reading →

Translating Thomson’s “Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Somatic Cells”

Posted by bnuckols ⋅ November 21, 2007 ⋅ Leave a comment

Yu, Thomson, and all, from Wisconsin published their paper on reprogrammed induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) cells from adult cells online in Science Express online, yesterday, just after the Yamanaka/Takahashi team from Japan published theirs in the journal, Cell. (The Thomson paper was not scheduled to go live online until the 22nd.) As discussed on this … Continue reading →

On the power of Naming (iPS and Art Caplan’s Off the Wall Question)

Posted by bnuckols ⋅ November 21, 2007 ⋅ 3 Comments

Art Caplan, Ph.D., is one of the pseudoeditors over at the Journal of American Bioethics blog, bioethics.net and a founding member of the “Progressive Bioethics Initiative,” along with Robin Alta Charo, the subject of one of yesterday’s posts. Dr. Caplan writes a regular “Breaking Bioethics” column for MSNBC. Art took the liberty of renaming the … Continue reading →

“I want” ethics reigns, even with good stem cell news

Posted by bnuckols ⋅ November 21, 2007 ⋅ 1 Comment

I found someone willing to admit that she’s not happy with today’s news on the production of embryo-like stem cells without the destruction of embryos or harm to women from donating eggs. Robin Alta Charo is a lawyer who, as part of the Clinton administration’s National Bioethics Advisory Commission, helped fabricate the policy to allow … Continue reading →