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Human induced pluripotent stem cells expressing NANOG, a marker of embryonic stem cells. Yamanaka and colleagues generate induced pluripotent stem cells from mouse and human adult fibroblasts without using the c-Myc oncogene (p 101).
Pressure is mounting on the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to explain its decision to ignore an advisory committee's positive recommendation for the cancer vaccine Provenge.
Charismatic FasterCures president Greg Simon is on a mission to galvanize US biomedical research—and he's starting by changing attitudes to the sharing of donated patient materials.
Follow-on biologics, changes to the patent system, new rules from the FDA and the prospect of a new party in the White House dominate the policy outlook for biotechs. Aaron Lorenzo reports.
Analysis of protein-protein interaction networks is an increasingly popular means to infer biological insight, but is close enough attention being paid to data handling protocols and the degree of bias in the data?
