ESC in Biological News

ETH Zurich competence center ESC introduces energy strategy

In the past year, various reports from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have warned the world in no uncertain terms that in order to achieve a stable climate on our planet by the end of this century, any increase in CO2 emissions in the coming decades must be cur...

Protein is key to embryonic stem cell differentiation

...2 that, in small doses, partially inhibits differentiation in both mESCs and hESCs. Taken together, these results suggest a conserved role for Shp2 in esc differentiation and self-renewal in both mice and humans. "This opens the door for new experimental reagents that will amplify the self-renewal pro...

Vaccination with embryonic stem cells prevents lung cancer in mice

...methylcholanthrene followed by repetitive dosing with butylated hydroxytoluene), ESCs resulted in 60% of mice remaining tumour free after 27 weeks and esc + STO/GM-CSF resulted in 90% remaining tumour free. Importantly, tumours arising in vaccinated mice were, on average, about 80-90% smaller than tumou...

Center releases new public survey on stem cells

...search. Respondents were given a choice of four esc research policy options: banning all embryonic st...ly favored the current policy or a complete ban of esc research indicated that if the treatment scenario ...aterialize, they would support a public policy for esc research that is more supportive than their initia...

Double triumph in stem cell quest

...oul National University claimed to have created an esc line from a cloned human embryo for the first time...ry inefficient, taking 242 eggs to create just one esc line. Now Hwang has created 11 more esc lines from cloned embryos in an impressive study t...