Stem Cells

Human cadaver brains may provide new stem cells | FOX 5 WTTG

On: October 17, 2012

No, it isn’t the teaser to a new horror movie, although you can bet someone will use this as a springboard for one–scientists have indeed figured out how to induce dead cells to become just about kind of cell they need. Adult stem cell success is an old story, whichContinue Reading

Scientists claim to have created oocytes from skin cells

By: Sharon

On: October 6, 2012

In: Genetics, Molecular Babylon Series

By SHARON K. GILBERT An oocyte is the fancy name for an immature egg cell, produced in a female’s ovary. Up until now, oocytes had to be harvested from an ovary for in vitro fertilization (IVF), but that may soon become passe. If a report published at Science Magazine is accurate,Continue Reading