According to The Scientist
This year's most exciting innovation, announced in April, circumvents the complications that come with the most common technique for reprogramming cells to an embryonic-like state. For the first time, Sheng Ding of Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., and his colleagues induced pluripotency in mouse embryonic fibroblast cells using only proteins, avoiding genetic modification altogether.
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As promised, I'm going through the three papers from last week about the re-programming of adult cells into an embryonic-like phenotype. Since it is three papers I'll go through first what's common to all three, and then what each group did special.
First of all, let's summarize the method one…
Getting cells to revert to a stem-like state – creating so-called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells – was a true revolution, but the technique invented in 2006 is only half the game. The first challenges include getting enough adult cells to undergo the “reprogramming” in culture to be of use…
Three different research groups have show that normal mouse fibroblast cells can be reprogrammed to resemble embryonic stem cells. The significance of this accomplishment has been likened to the cloning of Dolly-the first mammal cloned.
Embryonic stem cells are important as therapeutic agents due…
Soon it will be clear that this year old manuscript by Kazutoshi Takahashi and Shinya Yamanaka will be the basis of a future Nobel Prize.
The paper is how to transform any cell into a stem cell. In the paper the authors took an "I'm so smart" approach to the whole problem. These smart guess…
Kicking in the heads of atheists one at a time...
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PZ, I thought the Morris Police Department was going to save you from the wrath of God...
Can I not read my wonderful Scienceblogs without this jackass and his link spamming? I've seen this bullshit about atheists on like 5 blogs today. pzdummy, blow it out your ass, nobody wants to read your insulting bullshit on your crappy site (double-spaced text must give you a boner). Wrath of God, Nostradamus, jesus, throw a little Deepak Chopra in there and you'll have the trifecta of crap.
Wow, you have no web design skills at ALL, pzdummy. What an ugly, moronic site. Stop spamming.
actually, the SCIENCE BLOGS have been condemned by the *heavens*....
actually, the SCIENCE BLOGS have been condemned by the *heavens*....
Condemned by an idiot, more likely. Haven't the Montreal police arrested you for uttering threats yet? At the very least, you should be under observation in an institution somewhere. Anyway, go back to your little cave, troll. Nobody is interested in your trainwreck of a religion. You'll not get fed any further here, Dennis Markuze.