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Cancer-Causing Genes Removed from Stem Cells Friday, March 06, 2009 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Cancer Research   
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Whitehead Institute researchers have developed a novel method of removing potential cancer-causing genes during the reprogramming of skin cells from Parkinson's disease patients into an embryonic-stem-cell-like state. Scientists were then able to use the resulting induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells to derive dopamine-producing neurons, the cell type that degenerates in Parkinson's disease patients. The work marks the first time researchers have generated human iPS cells. (source: web.mit.edu)
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