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Vindication came on June 7, when the rest of the scientific world caught up with Yamanaka. Two separate teams of stem-cell researchers affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University and the University of California, Los Angeles published papers essentially confirming and refining Yamanaka's findings, while his...
For years, many stem-cell researchers sought to accomplish that through nuclear transfer-transplanting an adult cell's nucleus into an egg that had been emptied of its own genetic material. This process is expensive and difficult, and so far no one has been able to pull it off in...
Fluent in English-a rarity in Japanese science-Yamanaka worked in the U.S. in the early 1990s. He'll be spending more time in America later this year-he has accepted a post as a visiting scientist at the J. David Gladstone Institute in San Francisco. But his overseas travels...
The tradition of paying to eat a meal at a table alongside strangers can be traced, as so many other dining customs can be, to 18th century France. A 1786 decree ordered caterers, who once fed the nobility in their palaces, to serve all customers in shops. The shared tables...
Now that corn production has surpassed 10 billion bushels annually, competing crops, including rice and wheat, face price hikes as a result of substitution among grains. The U.S. corn crop accounts for about 40 percent of the global corn harvest, according to the Earth Policy Institute, and ethanol plants are...