Tag: iPS cells

Modeling Diabetes with Stem Cells

By Jocelyn Rice | 09/01/2009 | 0 Comments

Reprogrammed adult cells could be used to reconstruct diabetes in the laboratory.

Reprogrammed Human Cells Shed Light on Rare Disease

By Courtney Humphries | 08/20/2009 | 0 Comments

A new study uses induced pluripotent stem cells to investigate a neurological disease and test drugs.

Provoking Our Inner Stem Cells

By Lauren Gravitz | 07/17/2009 | 1 Comment

A startup aims to spur the body's native stem cells to heal disease.

Gene Defect Corrected in Human Stem Cells

By Michael Day | 06/01/2009 | 1 Comment

New research outlines a path toward new therapies with induced pluripotent stem cells.

How Down Syndrome Stops Cancer

By Jocelyn Rice | 05/21/2009 | 0 Comments

Customized Down syndrome stem cells reveal a way to starve tumors.

Freeing Up Stem-Cell Research

By Emily Singer | 02/10/2009 | 5 Comments

Scientists get ready for the end of federal restrictions on embryonic-stem-cell research.