Biochemistry 118

Genomics, Bioinformatics & Medicine

Stem Cells and Stem Cell Therapies

Doug Brutlag

 


Stem Cell Slides

Stem Cell Therapies Slides

Stem Cell Policy Issues

AAAS Policy on Human Cloning and Stem Cell Research

AAMC Policy on Stem Cell Nuclear Transfer

American Pregnancy Association: In Vitro Fertilization

Cancer Stem Cells

Dignitas Personai: The Catholic View

French Academy of Science - Stem Cell Pollicy

Genetics Policy Institute

Stem Cells and Cancer - The Economist

Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine

Stem Cell Ethics and Policy at Stanford

Stanford Magazines Review of Stem Cell Research Debate 2003

Proposition 71 and Stem Cell Article from San Francisco Magazine

New Atlantis Articles

A Bioethics Agenda by Eric Cohen

Leon Kass Response to Eric Cohen

Cloning Logjam at the United Nations

UN Backs Human Cloning Ban

Front Line Video on Stem Cells and Parkinsons (2009)

My Father, My Brother and Me

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/video/flv/generic.html?s=frol02s1dabq6c7&continuous=1

Important Literature References

Stem cell therapy recipient champions the research Stanford Report January 19, 2012

Reprogramming of human somatic cells to pluripotency with defined factors Park et al, (2008) Nature 451, January 10, pp 141- 147.

Induction of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Adult Human Fibroblasts by Defined Factors Takahashi et al. (2007) Cell 131, 861-872.

Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Somatic Cells Yu et al, (2007) Science 318, 1917.

Strategies and New Developments in the Generation of Patient-Specific Pluripotent Stem Cells Yamanaka, REVIEW (2007) Cell Stem Cell 1. July 2007 pp 39- 49.

Stem Cell Niche: Structure and Function. Li and Xie (2005) Annual Review of Developmental Biologyh 21, p 606-663.

Stem Cell Therapeutics. Singrec et al. 2008 Stem Cells Vol 1 pp. 313-328.

Noninvasive diagnosis of fetal aneuploidy by shotgun sequencing DNA from maternal blood. Fan et al. (2008) PNAS 105, 16266-16271

In vitro reprogramming of fibroblasts into a pluripotent ES-Cell like state Wernig et al. (2007) Nature 448, 318-335.

Neurons derived from reprogrammed fibroblasts functionally integrate into the fetal brain and improve symptoms of rats with Parkinsons disease. Wernig et al, (2008). PNAS 105, 5856-5861.

Direct conversion of mouse fibroblasts to self-renewing, tripotent neural precursor cells Lujan et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Feb 14;109(7):2527-32.

Parkinson's Disease Patient-derived Induces Pluripotent Stem Cells Free of Viral Reprogramming Factors Soldner et al 2009 Cell 136, 964-977.

 

 

 

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