C. Ronald Kahn

Harvard Stem Cell Institute scientists at the Joslin Diabetes Center have created induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) that offer a human model of insulin resistance—a key driver of type 2 diabetes. iPSCs are stem cells created by genetically modifying...

Harvard Stem Cell Scientists have discovered that the same chemicals that stimulate muscle development in zebrafish can also be used to differentiate human stem cells into muscle cells in the laboratory, an historically challenging task that, now overcome...