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“I’m not just holding out, but first I want to make sure they can do everything that embryonic stem cells can,” Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) Co-Director Douglas A. Melton said in an interview.
While some researchers, including British scientist and cloning pioneer Ian Wilmut, have suggested they would focus exclusively on reprogramming, HSCI Executive Director Brock Reeve said the institute would “continue to do work on multiple fronts.”
The institute had discussed its reaction to the discoveries with some donors, telling them that it was too early to commit to one method, Reeve said. HSCI allocates nearly equal funding to embryonic stem cell and direct reprogramming methods, he added.
An international project involving scientists from the United States and South Africa has made a major step forward in the ongoing global fight against tuberculosis (TB). By sequencing the genes of the most deadly strains of the bacteria responsible for TB, researchers from both the Broad Institute—a...
Former Soviet Premier Mikhail S. Gorbachev will likely face questions about Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Russia when he speaks on nuclear proliferation at the Institute of Politics (IOP) next week.