Word: stemness
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...recent advance in stem cell research is the latest in a stream of developments by Harvard researchers this past year...
...third annual Stem Cell Summit held at the Medical School last week, University President Drew G. Faust cited four papers published this summer as evidence of the progress made at a time when federal funding for embryonic research has been constrained by a 2001 order by President Bush...
...Among the discoveries were the creation of 10 disease-specific stem cell lines and the direct conversion of mouse pancreatic cells into insulin-producing beta cells that can be used to treat patients with Type I diabetes...
...though the next presidential administration may prove friendlier to stem cell research, funding for the National Institutes of Health has been frozen in recent years, meaning that it has declined in real terms...
...Though he used money from the NIH New Innovator Award that he won last year, Hochedlinger’s research was not subject to federal embryonic stem cell restrictions because iPS cells are created from skin cells or blood cells instead of from embryos. His work was also funded in part by the Harvard Stem Cell Institute...