In a groundbreaking study published today in Nature, Australian scientists have resolved a long-standing problem in regenerative medicine. Led by Professor Ryan Lister from the Harry Perkins Institute ...

A modified version of iPS methodology, called interrupted reprogramming, allows for a highly controlled, potentially safer, and more cost-effective strategy for generating progenitor-like cells from ...

The iPS cells passed the standard barrage of tests for pluripotency, and microarray analyses demonstrated that these cells exhibited similar gene expression profiles to embryonic stem cells. The new ...

Stem cells hold tremendous potential in healthcare and research science, because they can become any type of cell. However, there were many impediments to using them. They cannot be obtained from ...

Researchers from Monash University in Melbourne and The University of Western Australia have demonstrated how a reprogramming method imitates embryonic epigenetic reset. Transient naive treatment (TNT ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...

Stem cells are special kinds of cells in our bodies that can become any other type of cell. They have huge potential for medicine, and trials are currently under way using stem cells to replace ...

Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) exhibit unique chromatin features, including a permissive transcriptional program and an open, decondensed chromatin state. Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), which ...

In reading, a bookmark tells where you stopped. Cells use bookmarks too, specific proteins that help the cell remember what collection of genes needs to be turned on again after the brief halt of gene ...