#  Media Mentions 2010 

 



### **September 2010**

**9/30/10** HSCI Principal Faculty member Derrick Rossi demonstrates how to use synthetic mRNA to make safer iPS cells.  
 *Featured*: [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-30/harvard-method-turns-skin-to-stem-cell-alternative-with-less-cancer-risk.html), [Harvard Gazette](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/09/breakthrough-in-cell-reprogramming/), [Medical News Today](http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/203128.php), [MedPage Today](http://www.medpagetoday.com/PublicHealthPolicy/StemCellResearch/22494), [Nature](http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v467/n7316/full/467637b.html), [Newsy](http://www.newsy.com/videos/scientists-make-stem-cell-breakthrough/) (video), [Science Magazine](http://www.sciencemag.org/content/330/6001/162.full?sid=aafd8673-79d7-48ea-916f-eeaf29725f85), [Science NOW](http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/09/a-better-way-to-reprogram-cells.html)

### **July 2010**

**7/23/10** HSCI Co-Director David Scadden and Executive Committee member Leonard Zon are reconized by the the American Society of Hematology, reports the [Harvard Gazette](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/07/scadden-zon-recognized-by-american-society-of-hematology/).  
   
 **7/19/10** Two Harvard Stem Cell Institute groups, one led by HSCI Executive Committee member George Daley and the other by Principal Faculty member Konrad Hochedlinger, find residual 'memory' in iPS cells.  
 *Featured:* [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-19/reprogrammed-adult-stem-cells-may-have-limited-use-harvard-scientists-say.html), [Harvard Gazette](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/07/two-hsci-groups-find-residual-genetic-memory-in-ips-cells/), [Science](http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/07/the-persistence-of-memory-in-rep.html), [Science News](http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/61278/description/Stuck_in_the_past)

### **June 2010**

****6/17/10**** The [Pew Charitable Trusts](http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_room_detail.aspx?id=59211) names HSCI Principal Faculty member Fernando Camargo as a 2010 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences.

**6/1/10** [Nature Medicine ](http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v16/n6/full/nm0610-624.html)does a Q&A with HSCI Executive Committee member George Daley.

### **February 2010**

**2/18/10** HSCI Executive Committee member George Daley and Principal Faculty member Suneet Agarwal discover laboratory process that reverses telomere degradation/aging in stem cells.   
 *Featured*: [MIT Technology Review](http://www.technologyreview.com/news/417535/rewinding-the-clock-for-aging-cells/), [USA Today](http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/02/study-stem-cells-may-beat-premature-aging-in-children-and-adults/1#.UZFh6YKNTLl)

### **January 2010**

**1/1/10** HSCI and the evolution of stem cell research featured in [Harvard Magazine](http://harvardmagazine.com/2010/01/state-of-stem-cell-field).