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Taboo topics about iPS cells: the elephant in the lab series

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Wait, what’s that taboo elephant doing in the IPS cell lab? You don’t see it? I’m starting a new series called “The Elephant in the Lab” where I discuss controversial laboratory topics that people are usually too afraid to publicly discuss. We are starting with iPS cells. (for a description and definition of iPS cells

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News flash: George Bush deserves credit for iPS cells?

George Bush deserves credit for iPS cells? No way. One of the weapons in the war against stem cell therapies is the use of a seemingly simple word: “ethical”. What does it mean to do ethical science in general and in particular what is ethical stem cell research? Who decides? According to the opponents of

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iPS cells and endangered species: a recipe to avoid extinction?

What’s the connection between iPS cells and endangered species? Stem cell-based regenerative medicine has the potential to help treat not only humans with injuries or illness, but also veterinary patients such as dogs and horses. Is it also possible that stem cell technology could prevent extinction of endangered species? A recent paper suggests this may

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Summary of George Daley talk on iPS cells today in Seattle

The best talk today was the keynote address by Dr. George Daley focused mostly on iPS cells. Dr. Daley is one of the world’s experts on iPS cells and pluripotent stem cells more generally. He covered many interesting elements of the iPS cell field including the genetic mutations that seem to occur during the reprogramming

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News on iPS cells from some top scientists at ASGCT meeting today

There were three talks today on iPS cells here at the American Society for Gene and Cell Therapy meeting or ASGCT meeting in Seattle. Dr. James Ellis made the interesting case that it may be preferable to make iPS cells using genetic methods (while everyone else seems to be saying that non-genetic methods will be better).

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Why miRNA iPS cells might be the ticket: an A+ paper

Since Yamanaka’s discovery of iPS cells first in mouse and then in human cells 5 years ago, both made using viral transduction, a host of new methods to make iPS cells have been reported.  These methods are quite diverse, ranging from transposons, to recombinant proteins, to plasmids, and to RNA.  Often times these new approaches

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