Cell - 8 September 2016

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Leading Edge Select It’s a Hot World Out There All parents face a daunting challenge: how to prepare their little ones for the c ...

The answers to these questions and more will have to await future studies. But whatever they may be, the finding that bird paren ...

Leading Edge BenchMarks The Strategic Revolution Andy Gardner1,* (^1) University of St Andrews, Dyers Brae, Greenside Place, St. ...

was able to launch an attack against this pseudoscientific paradigm, with his 1966 bookAdaptation and Natural Selec- tion (Willi ...

A further refinement of the notion of fitness would make clear that this is distinct from fecundity and that individ- uals who p ...

gene is instead a distributed agent that simultaneously encompasses all identical copies in the population. That is, the hero of ...

Leading Edge Obituary Howard Schachman (1918–2016) Howard Schachman, renowned physical chemist and protein chemist, professor at ...

These then are Howard’s scientific contributions, worthy of his many awards and elec- tions: the perfection of the ul- tracentri ...

mentoring doctoral students and post- docs, who were deeply affected by him. Through all of his lectures, speeches, protests, an ...

Making the Most from Changes in Life Sally Temple How is the brain built? This is the question that first captivated me as a stu ...

position and gave me the freedom to tackle any question that I was interested in with my fellowship from the Royal Society. I de ...

In our new lab, we focused on following brain progenitor cells over time to learn how they give rise to different types of proge ...

company to manufacture reagents that improve stem cell culture, and, most recently, set up a retina therapeutic company to devel ...

Leading Edge Conversations iPS Cells 10 Years Later In 2006, Takahashi and Yamanaka reported the breakthrough discovery of induc ...

combination of the four factors. We didn’t have to do the actual large-scale cDNA library screening. That’s what happened actual ...

we have been generating iPSCs from many rare disease patients. You know, without iPSCs, those patients felt they were kind of ab ...

their own new treatments using iPS cells. At the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, I have a role as a scientist. I have bee ...

Leading Edge Previews Teaching a Clone to Walk, One Step at a Time James E. Crowe, Jr.1,* (^1) Departments of Pediatrics, Pathol ...

One option that is being pursued is the use of ‘‘experimental medicine’’ trials in humans, which are small Phase-I-like studies ...