My goals over the decade include to develop new drugs to treat intractable diseases by using iPS cell technology and to conduct clinical trials using it on a few patients with Parkinson's diseases,...
When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realized there was such a small difference between it and my daughters. I thought, we can't keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.
One of the most extraordinary scientific discoveries of this century was made by a doctor-turned-scientist working in Japan. Shinya Yamanaka had been involved in the field of stem cells for ten years...