Here's another video for you where Dr. Jaenisch discusses this week's incredible findings:
Also check out this new feature at the Nature website on stem cells and a new stem cell blog called the niche. (NT: pimm)
PS I'll be meeting up with Marius tonight if you have any questions you would like to ask on stem cells let me know.
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Today three papers came out, two in Nature, and one in the inaugural edition of Cell Stem Cell, that basically confirm the results from last year's landmark manuscript by Kazutoshi Takahashi and Shinya Yamanaka (for details on this paper, see this post).
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A couple of questions:
Why are so few scienceblogs are covering this ground-breaking research? And why are so few scienceblogs, including yours, covering the legislation on embryonic stem cell research, and what the impact of these papers may have on the stem cell debate.
Acme,
I can't speak for others - they probably haven't read the papers yet. Also there are very few cell/developmental biologists on Scienceblogs (others would be PZ Myers and RPM). I do have to say that many have criticized ScienceBlogs for posting too many flashy press-release science that has little scientific value. Of course this stem cell story WAS all over the papers.
Outside of Scienceblogs, Dan at migrations has a post today and there are others. For some of these blog entries, check out Postgenomics:
http://postgenomic.com/story.php?cluster_id=10178
Now why the culture war writers haven't jumped over the stem cell legislation ... again you'll have to ask them. MarkH at denialism did post something. Honestly I haven't had the time to read up on what exact;y is happening on Capitol Hill. In a sense there is no discernible difference between these cells and ES cells derived from embryos, all anti ES cell research folks should step back and think about this fact.
Why are so few scienceblogs are covering this ground-breaking research?
I do indeed appreciate that sciencebloggers mostly stay within the field they have expertise in. As Alex pointed out, it wouldn't help to see the same rewritten sciencedaily stuff all over the place again and again. In addition, when you see the number of comments to Alex's posts and posts on other scienceblogs, it seems that the scienceblogs readership is quite focussed and comes to scienceblogs for very different reasons. Currently, there are 20 comments on iPS cells for his three posts on the issue. Do you want to search 20 blogs to read them?