#  Media Mentions 2008 

 




### **November 2008**


**11/1/08** [Harvard Magazine](http://harvardmagazine.com/2008/11/stem-cell-progress-html) prints a review of recent breakthroughs by HSCI scientists.


### **October 2008**

**10/21/08** HSCI Co-Director Douglas Melton and postdoctoral fellow Danwei Huangfu discover a chemical that can be used in place of two cancer genes to transform an adult cell into an induced pluripotent stem cell.   
 *Featured*: [Harvard Gazette](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/10/another-step-forward-in-cell-reprogramming/), [Reuters ](http://in.reuters.com/article/2008/10/12/us-stemcells-idINTRE49B2M320081012)

### **August 2008**

**8/29/08** In a scientific first, Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers directly reprogram one type of cell into another, reports [Science Magazine](http://www.sciencemag.org/content/321/5893/1143.full?sid=aafd8673-79d7-48ea-916f-eeaf29725f85).

### **June 2008**

**6/8/08** [Nature Reports Stem Cells](http://www.nature.com/stemcells/2008/0806/080605/full/stemcells.2008.88.html) has a Q&A about 'stemness' with HSCI Executive Committee member Leonard Zon.