IPS Cells

Possible problem with induced stem cells

Michael Cook | 14 May 2011

High hopes for the ethically less controversial variety of pluripotent stem cell have been dimmed by research published this week in Nature. A team led by Yang Xu at the University of California, San Diego, demonstrated that induced pluripotent stem cells triggered immune reactions when they were implanted into mice. In some cases, the cells were completely destroyed by the animals' immune systems.

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

Adult stem cell method tested in Parkinson’s study

Jared Yee | 16 July 2010

First test using IPS cells

Champions of embryonic stem cells fight back in media

Michael Cook | 20 February 2010

Theology published in leading journal Stem Cell

New wrinkle in stem cell debate

Michael Cook | 10 February 2010

Stanford researchers change cells directly