Herald Sun: 23 August 2010
Australian Financial Review 23 August 2010
Reference
PLoS One
A Combined Epigenetic and Non-Genetic Approach for Reprogramming Human Somatic Cells,
Jinnuo Han, Perminder S. Sachdev, Kuldip S. Sidhu*
Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
UNSW Stem Cell Lab

Adult-derived cells reprogrammed to behave like embryonic stem cells act differently depending on where the cells came from, according to papers published today in Nature and Nature Biotechnology.

Who would have thought there could be serious ethical issues with induced pluripotent stem cells – or iPSC.

From Scientific American: One for teachers, students and anyone trying to get their head around the science and associated issues of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

CSIRO and the Australian Stem Cell Centre are holding a free public lecture on stem cell research.

Long-rumbling hostilities between stem-cell researchers exploded into a blazing public row last week, after Nature published a critical reanalysis of data from a high-profile 2008 article.

Scientist plan to turn cells from endangered animals into sperm and eggs to save them from extinction. Could this money be better spent saving many more species from becoming endangered in the first place?

Human pluripotent cells have been created using a virus alone

US scientists have found a cluster of inactive genes in induced pluripotent stem cells that may be responsible for their limitations compared to embryonic stem cells.

It was hoped using reprogrammed mature cells would be a noncontroversial alternative to embryonic stem cells, but their low replication rates and premature ageing are proving problematic.