Riken Center for Developmental Biology

National / Science & Health Dec 1, 2014

Fear of unknown barrier to iPS cures, expert says

Masayo Takahashi, who led the world's first operation to implant induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells into a human body, says greater Japanese understanding of the risks and benefits of new medical procedures is key to achieving her goal of standardizing the procedure one day. About ...

National / Science & Health | NATURAL SELECTIONS Feb 15, 2014

Stem-cell leap defied Japanese norms

by Rowan Hooper

It's not surprising that last week Haruko Obokata issued a plea for privacy. On Jan. 29 she published a scientific paper on stem cells that could revolutionize medicine, and overnight the researcher based at the Riken Center for Developmental Biology (CDB) in Kobe became ...