Turning skin cells into stem cells; mapping reprogramming & a stem cell encyclopedia - meet some of the scientists who have received grants and prizes from the National Stem Cell Foundation of Australia:
- Kathryn Davidson is turning skin cells into stem cells and then into eye cells to study causes of vision loss, such as age-related macular degeneration.
- Ryan Lister is teaching reprogrammed 'adult' stem cells to forget their previous life.
- Jose Polo is mapping how adult cells are reprogrammed into stem cells.
- Christine Wells has created on encyclopedia of genetic information to help this rapidly growing field share information - and it's already led to the discovery of a new class of stem cell.
