Method of the Year 2009: iPS cells

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Published 2009-12-23

Nature Methods has selected induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells as its Method of the Year 2009. Now that the generation of iPS cells is becoming routine, researchers can use them as a tool to make discoveries in disease and basic biology. Get the free Nature Methods special feature here: www.nature.com/nmeth/focus/moy2009

All Comments (14)

@austinkuro-kp3ge 6 months ago

Please make a new version of this video
@Ultrasonicmolester 12 years ago

The most excellent invention in human history
@AzharRafiq 9 years ago

very informative!
@FutureAIDev2015 6 years ago

What would have happened if those iPS cells taken from the boy with atrophy were reimplanted into his spinal cord at the lesion site?
@defruit2160 1 year ago

I still don't get how to transform the ips embryonic cell into a specialised cell
@ushnishsengupta6916 2 years ago

The link seems to be broken.
@nsaxe001 11 years ago

Really? I wonder why "God" gave us so many of them and made them so crucial to our development.
@samjose751 9 years ago

Quite the comments here. Perhaps one day 'idiocy' will be reversed or removed from its carriers by iPS cells.
@deefromott 11 years ago

no way
@jaksat5 12 years ago

@ilovefloor2395 Yeah, English people speaking in English is a massive mindfuck eh?!
@LeRoux1809 12 years ago

Optogenetics > iPS cells
@nsaxe001 11 years ago

Uh, no they don't. And it's funny that you talk about mutilating language with that atrocious grammar.
@sizantahmid 6 years ago

Are the researchers still alive?What they are doing since last 9 years?I think they are wasting both money & time.They did nothing on eye.