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Mental illness “in a dish”

Jared Yee | 23 April 2011

Before he committed suicide at age 22, an anonymous man with schizophrenia donated a biopsy of his skin cells to research. Regrown as neurons, the cells may help neuroscientists to decipher the disease with which he struggled from early childhood

Ethical speed bumps ahead on the stem cell highway

Michael Cook | 24 April 2010

iPS cells are more promising than hESCs, but they have their problems, too