DNA discovery may boost stem cell safety

A region of DNA that can boost the growth of stem cells has been found in the largest ever study of human embryonic stem cells.

ABC Science Online: 28 November 2011

Cosmos Magazine: 28 November 2011

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This story reports on a finding from the International Stem Cell Inititative (ISCI), which is a collaboration of a massive number of research institutes and researchers worldwide – count the number of contributing authors on the paper associated with the above story. Essentially the ISCI is pooling the expertise of all these researchers to understand and learn all they can about embryonic stem cells to enable to be used in the clinic to treat disease. Don’t expect miracle cures anytime soon, but I find it encouraging that such scientific collaborations exist. And from a social or humanitarian perspective, note also where these scientists are from: everywhere from Israel, Iran, UK, Australia, Czech…etc Science can obviously bypass politics