HSCI researchers achieve major breakthrough in cell reprogramming
Thursday, September 30, 2010 - 11:07
in Health & Medicine
A group of Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) and Children’s Hospital Boston (CHB) researchers has made so significant a leap forward in reprogramming human adult cells that HSCI co-director Doug Melton, who did not participate in the work, said the Institute will immediately begin using the new method to make patient and disease-specific induced pluripotent stem cells, know as iPS cells.read more