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Brain Cells From Skin Cells – Stanford researchers have successfully turned mouse skin cells into fully functioning brain cells.

In what’s being heralded as “a huge leap forward,” the new technique for creating brain cells from skin cells is an astonishing medical breakthrough.
The process, which took less than a week, upends thinking on how cells develop [...]

Stem Cells Diabetes Treament – A promising Type 1 diabetes treatment involves injecting stem cells taken from their blood and reinjected, providing years of insulin-free living.
Roughly two dozen people have received the experimental diabetes treament with a handful of people with Type 1 diabetes going without insulin shots for more than two-and-a-half years, on average, [...]

Obama Overturns Bush Stem Cell Limits – President Barack Obama is ending George W. Bush’s limits on using federal dollars for embryonic stem cell research, sending a clear signal that science and not political ideology will guide the administration.
Obama was to sign an executive order on stem cells and memo on science Monday in an East Room [...]