Safety issues in stem cell therapy

An international study in the prestigious journal Nature Biotechnology reveals new information about human pluripotent stem cells and their genetic stability and has important implications for the development of therapies using these cells. Scientists from the University of Melbourne, University of NSW and CSIRO contributed to this study, which examined how the genome of 138 stem cell lines of diverse ethnic backgrounds changed when the cells were grown in the laboratory.

Prof Martin Pera, University of Melbourne and Stem Cells Australia

Dr Andrew Laslett, Qi Zhou, CSIRO

A/Prof Jeremy Crook, Shirani Sivarajah, University of Melbourne and National ICT Australia

A/Prof Kuldip Sidhu, UNSW

Nature Biotechnology

http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nbt.2051.html