Comments on: A Gigantic Breakthrough in Stem Cell Research

By: Dan Morgan

Dan Morgan — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:55:00 +0000

I have heard of this, but it was from http://www.biogenesisinstitute.com . Cant wait to see what they can be used to do

By: rj

rj — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 02:54:10 +0000

was the news stroy that came out recently about yamanaka mean they finally made IPS cells without the cancer gene?

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What Bush Got Wrong on Stem Cells - Dear Science — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:10:39 +0000

[...] iPS cell breakthrough this fall seemed to change the game. Simply by adding four genes, we could convert most any adult [...]

By: george montgomery

george montgomery — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:45:19 +0000

thank you for your insight into this advancement in science. i myself am doing a presentation of Dr. Yamanaka’s finding in particular. it seems that this may be one of those few moments in our lives that we are able to glimpse into a future of possibilities that will extend much further than our own lifetimes, and even those of are grandchildren for that matter. allowing ourselves to procure a future where medical discoveries are made in a petri dish and not on the operating table will save billions of dollars in explorative surgery and also allow for answers previously only given through miraculous discovery. i hope that this ends up as we all hope it will, with livers, hearts and other organs being genetically created through iPS cells. it also allows for medications in cancer and tumors to be explored at no cost to a patient’s health. there does remain, however, a small conspiracy theorist element to my thinking. what would all this lead too? cloning, eugenics, and genetic engineering all have a potentially dark side, one that has been explored since the days of Francis Galton, through the Nazi party up until clandestine experiments of today’s embryonic stem-cell research. Let us hope that the altruistic human nature of many scientists is not abused or misguided, for the potential of this technology will have either miraculous or devastating effects.

By: Thomas Robey

Thomas Robey — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:15:48 +0000

I can’t wait to hear about what these little buggers can do!