Scientists have successfully grown over 400 different types of nerve cells from stem cells in the lab—a groundbreaking step toward replicating the complexity of the human brain.

Japan’s foray into regenerative medicine takes on added importance for a nation wrestling with age, stagnation, and its place in the world.

Kyoto University demonstrates the promise of induced pluripotent stem cell therapy for Parkinson’s Meanwhile, a phase 1/2 trial conducted by Kyoto University Hospital and the Center for iPS Cell ...

Shinya Yamanaka, a professor at Kyoto University in Japan who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2012. He pioneered the induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSc) technology that converts ...

From there, these induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) can be coaxed to become whatever cell type is needed for a specific treatment. However, this Nobel prize-winning discovery isn’t without ...

In order to turn adult cells back into pluripotent stem cells, scientists typically use viruses to insert four genes — Sox2, Oct4, Klf4, and cMyc — into the cells.

The researcher who developed induced pluripotent stem cells, the biochemist who invented DNA microarrays, and the immunologist who discovered dendritic cells are just a few of the scientists whose ...

“Twenty years ago, the discovery of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) opened a new era in biomedical research,” said Shinya Yamanaka, Kyoto University, Japan.

Although the Nobel Prize for induced stem cells was handed out over a decade ago, the therapies have been slow to follow.

Scientists have reprogrammed mouse cells into pluripotent stem cells using a gene from choanoflagellates, single-celled organisms related to animals.

Introduction: Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs), derived from reprogrammed adult somatic cells, hold significant promise for disease modelling, personalized medicine, drug discovery, and ...

Yamanaka received a Nobel Prize in 2012 for his discovery of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells), which are adult cells that can be reprogrammed to a stem-cell state similar to human ...