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NIGMS-supported James A. Thomson has endowed skin cells with embryonic stem cell-like properties without using viruses, which can insert potentially harmful genes into the cells’ genetic material and trigger cancer. 

A team of scientists has advanced stem cell research by finding a way to endow human skin cells with embryonic stem cell-like properties without inserting potentially problematic new genes into their DNA. 

Scientists have found a new way to produce stem cell-like cells from mouse liver cells. The new technique sidesteps the cancer-causing potential of a previously developed method.

A multinational team of researchers has succeeded in turning human embryonic stem cells into three types of human heart cells.

Two teams of scientists, one supported by NIGMS, have sidestepped the use eggs or embryos and produced what appear to be human embryonic stem cells from skin cells.