Dr. Kevin Eggan from Harvard University joins the show to talk about his latest work using stem cells to cure ALS/Lou Gehrig’s disease.

Fate of iPSCs Derived from Azoospermic and Fertile Men following Xenotransplantation to Murine Seminiferous Tubules

Hope for Aging Brains, Skeletal Muscle

Pain Curbs Sex Drive in Female Mice, but Not in Males

New Virus Related To Smallpox Is Found in Republic Of Georgia

Male Researchers Stress Out Rodents

Scripps Florida Scientists Find Connection Between Gene Mutation, Key Symptoms of Autism

Soy-Dairy Protein Blend and Whey Protein Ingestion After Resistance Exercise Increases Amino Acid Transport and Transporter Expression in Human Skeletal Muscle

Push Comes to Shove: Gilead’s $1,000 Pill Could Hurt Insurer Earnings

Death Rates From Pancreatic Cancer Predicted to Rise in Europe in 2014

Human CLP1 Mutations Alter tRNA Biogenesis, Affecting Both Peripheral and Central Nervous System Function

Y chromosome is Not Disappearing, Researchers Say

Loss Of Memory Reversed in Alzheimer’s Mice Models

MRSA Spreads in Households

REDD1 is Essential for Stress-Induced Synaptic Loss and Depressive Behavior

Amyloid Precursor Protein Regulates Neurogenesis by Antagonizing Mir-574-5p in the Developing Cerebral Cortex

Japanese Nobel Winner Latest to Apologize Over Stem-Cell Research

RIKEN to Check 20,000 Papers for Doctored Images and Plagiarism

Stem Cells and the “Staircase of Shame”

Stem Cells May Be Key to Long Life: Research on Body of 115-Year-Old Woman

How Silly Putty May Advance Stem Cell Research

First Stem Cells Cloned From Diabetes Patient, Thanks to Egg Donors

Human Oocytes Reprogram Adult Somatic Nuclei of a Type 1 Diabetic to Diploid Pluripotent Stem Cells

Human Embryonic-Stem-Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes Regenerate Non-Human Primate Hearts

Infertility: Stem Cell-Based Sperm Created From Infertile Mens Skin

Reprogramming Committed Murine Blood Cells to Induced Hematopoietic Stem Cells with Defined Factors

A 3D Sphere Culture System Containing Functional Polymers for Large-Scale Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Production

3D In Vitro Model of a Functional Epidermal Permeability Barrier from Human Embryonic Stem Cells and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

Photo Reference: Courtesy of Dr. Kevin Eggan

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