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Pliant Therapeutics, Third Rock’s New $45M Startup, Looks to Stop Lung Scarring

Wed Feb 24, 2016

Implantable artificial kidney based on microchips sees major progress

Wed Feb 24, 2016

How Light Microscopy Forever Changed Scientific Imaging

Wed Feb 24, 2016

Designed protein shelters reactive organic radical

Wed Feb 24, 2016

Oral contraceptive exposure in newly pregnant women not linked to birth defects

Fri Feb 5, 2016

Converting skin cells to pancreatic cells may help protect against diabetes

Wed Jan 13, 2016

Diabetes: Conversion of skin cells to produce insulin could lead to new treatments

Wed Jan 13, 2016

Stem cell shortcut points S.F. scientists to potential therapy for diabetes

Wed Jan 13, 2016

Insulin-producing pancreatic cells created from human skin cells

Thu Jan 7, 2016

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Chris Goodfellow (Gladstone Institutes)

Sheng Ding, PhD

Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes, the Diabetes Center at UCSF, and the UCSF School of Pharmacy have converted human skin cells into fully functional pancreatic cells that produce insulin in response to changes in glucose levels.

UGA research links inorganic mercury exposure to damaged cell processes

Tue Jan 5, 2016

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