Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Scientists uncover the key to controlling how stem cells develop

Source: The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)
Date: August 6, 2008

Summary:

Canadian researchers are one step closer to controlling human embryonic stem cell differentiation thanks to the work of scientists Dr. Cheryle Séguin and Dr. Janet Rossant of the Developmental and Stem Cell Biology program at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids). Séguin and Rossant, along with their colleagues Dr. Jonathan Draper of the Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute at McMaster University , and Dr. Andras Nagy, of Mount Sinai Hospital published these groundbreaking findings in the Cell Press journal, Stem Cell.