Programmable CRISPR tools are turning stem cell biology into something closer to software engineering, shrinking ...

Izzie Clarke: Hello and welcome to this Nature Custom Media podcast, supported by the Sigma-Aldrich® brand from Merck. I’m science journalist Izzie Clarke and in this episode, I explore how scientists ...

Resting brain stem cells hardly differ from normal astrocytes, which support the nerve cells in the brain. How can almost identical cells perform such different functions? The key lies in the ...

CGTE researchers Dr. Stelios Andreadis, center director, and Dr. Kirk Personius are lead co-authors of a paper in the October 24th edition of Nature Communications. This study describes experiments ...

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have found a new approach to the "reprogramming" of ordinary adult cells into stem cells. In a study published today in an Advance Online paper in ...

Everything about Shinya Yamanaka’s discovery was right—except for the timing. The 44-year-old Kyoto University stem-cell researcher had found a way to genetically reprogram an ordinary mouse skin cell ...