Tag Archives: skin cells

First steps: Converting skin cells to blood cells without stem cells

Impact: Stem Cells    November 14, 2010
This is an important story about stem cell research because it doesn’t involve stem cells. I know that sounds odd, but it’s true. Of course, I’m being coy. The research by Mick Bhatia, Eva Szabo and colleagues at McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada), published in the November 7, 2010 online issue of Nature [ Direct [...]
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The potentially polymorphous cell (a revolution in the making?)

Impact: Stem Cells    January 28, 2010
One of the hazards of constant bombardment with science or technology announcements heralding something as “breakthrough,” “revolutionary,” “unprecedented,” and the like, is developing superlative fatigue. These results can’t all be great; and they’re not. Sometimes it’s just hype. Sometimes the people involved really do think they’re on to something, but they’re not. Occasionally the superlatives [...]
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Skin cells – to stem cells – to liver cells

News: Stem Cells    October 18, 2009
The potential and versatility of stem cells continues to expand. Future Pundit reports on a new use: Researchers converted human skin cells into induced pluripotent stem cells and then converted the stem cells into liver cells that were able to function in the livers of mice. Scientists at The Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee [...]
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