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Reverting Pluripotent Stem Cells to Totipotency

Drug cocktail makes stem cells that could grow organisms from scratch
“In recent years scientists have been able to take adult [MORE]

Transcription Factor Oct4 not Necessary for iPSCs

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Not long ago, stem cell scientists considered “Oct4” (i.e. octamer-binding transcription factor 4—one of the four Yamanaka factors that induce [MORE]

Functional Neurons from T-cells without Induced Pluripotency

Neurons from human immune cells
From Stanford University comes this news: “This new study demonstrates a breakthrough technique that can produce as [MORE]

The Youngest Stem Cells

Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Pluripotent embryonic stem cells are derived from blastocysts of about 100 cells, which means those stem cells [MORE]

Maintaining Pluripotency in hESC’s

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Since 2001, when the USFDA approved “Gleevec” for clinical use, scientists, oncologists and cancer patients alike have understood “signal induction [MORE]