Induced pluripotent stem cells steal limelight from embryonic stem cells

January 5, 2009

Recent stem cell headlines are all about how adult cells can be reprogrammed into induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, which was recently hailed as the biggest scientific breakthrough of 2008. All of this attention to iPS cells and hardly a word about embryonic stem (ES) cells, which raises a question:

Have ES cells lost their luster since scientists figured out how to reprogram adult cells back to the primordial stem cell state? (WTN News)