A scientific team in Singapore has unveiled the most important genes in human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). This discovery is an essential breakthrough in determining how human stem cells help the effort to improve research turning mature stem cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). Scientists are now able to highlight the fundamental differences between stem cells from different species, and the greater need to use human cells in stem cell research.. Read More
Singapore Scientists Make Key Breakthrough in Stem Cell Research
History Making Human Embryonic Stem Cell Trial Perfomed on October 11, 2010
The FDA approved study is the first actual test on human patients suffering from spinal cord injury. This is a major reasearh breakthrough toward the goal of clinical human embryonic stem cell (hESC) treatments comes only 12 years after the discovery of how to isolate human embryonic stem cells was first accomplished.
Latest Poll Shows 72% of Americans Support Embryonic Stem Cell Research
The Harris poll was conducted online between Sept. 28-30 and included 2,113 adults ages 18
“There is now overwhelming public support for using embryonic stem cells in biomedical research,” said Humphrey Taylor, chairman of the Harris Poll, a service of Harris Interactive. “Even among Catholics and born-again Christians, relatively few people believe that stem cell research should be forbidden because it is unethical or immoral.”
Stem Cell Reprogramming Breakthrough
An important step forward has been taken in stem cell research. A new process for producing induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) shows great promise in the quest to make regenerative medicine an important tool for the treatment and cure of disease and injury. Even the stem cell researchers who made the discovery agree with NIH director Francis Collins who said this research in no way reduces the importance of comparing the resulting iPS cells to human embryonic stem cells. Previous research has shown that iPS cells retain some memory of their tissue of origin, which may have important implications for their use in therapeutics. To explore these important potential differences, iPS research must continue to be conducted side by side with human embryonic cell research.”
The two links below give the whole story.
Harvard University – Breakthrough in cell reprogramming
Scientists reach a milestone in iPS research
