by Amy Adams on January 18, 2011 at 1:40PM | 0 comments
Nature has a story that features a promising use for stem cells, and also provided a creative outlet for whoever is writing headlines over there: "Cells snag top modelling job".
by Amy Adams on November 17, 2010 at 9:29AM | 2 comments
Yesterday CIRM grantee Bruce Conklin gave his top four reasons why embryonic stem cells are so valuable and why federal funding for the work needs to be able to continue. Conklin, who is Senior Investigator Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and professor at UCSF, studies heart rhythm defects by creating iPS cells from people genetically predisposed to have those defects, then maturing those into heart cells in a dish.
