David Breault

Scientists have found ways of culturing organ-specific tissue from stem cells that could change the way diseases are studied and treated. By Javier Barbuzano Imagine the possibility of creating individualized, complex collections of cells that bear a...

In 2006, Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, discovered a way to reprogram mature skin cells back to a stem cell state so they can be converted into any cell type a scientist is interested in studying. That work earned him last year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or...