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Translating Thomson’s “Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Somatic Cells”
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”
>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)
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
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
Science Magazine on "Race" to Stem Cell Breakthrough
The Thomson article is online (abstract is free, article is behind a pay wall), but I haven’t had a chance to read it. In the meantime, Science Magazine has a news article on both the publication from Wisconsin’s Thomson and the previously discussed Takahashi/Yamanaka article in Cell. Be sure and read the last sentence!!!! Now … Continue reading
>Science Magazine on "Race" to Stem Cell Breakthrough
>The Thomson article is online (abstract is free, article is behind a pay wall), but I haven’t had a chance to read it. In the meantime, Science Magazine has a news article on both the publication from Wisconsin’s Thomson and the previously discussed Takahashi/Yamanaka article in Cell. Be sure and read the last sentence!!!! Now … Continue reading
Translation of "Induced Pluripotent (Human) Stem Cells"
Please see the revised version of this post, published November 30, 2007.
>Translation of "Induced Pluripotent (Human) Stem Cells"
>Please see the revised version of this post, published November 30, 2007.
Reprogramming Stem Cells – Links to Articles
I got the authors backwards. Here’s the corrected version: Takahashi et al. (including Yamanaka), Cell Online, free pdf. There’s a “Preview” article in pdf here.Still waiting for Science to post Thomson’s report online.
>Reprogramming Stem Cells – Links to Articles
>I got the authors backwards. Here’s the corrected version: Takahashi et al. (including Yamanaka), Cell Online, free pdf. There’s a “Preview” article in pdf here.Still waiting for Science to post Thomson’s report online.
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