Ways that stem cells might one day be used to treat the loss of vision or hearing will be the subject of a free public lecture Wednesday evening at UC Davis Medical Center.

Studying this gene and the protein it encodes could lead to new treatments for heart failure, says Sakthivel Sadayappan, a US-based Loyola University Health System researcher.

Shown are two mouse embryos at the blastocyst stage. The left is a control embryo and the right is an embryo where Tet1 is depleted at one of the two cells at two-cell stage.

Alot has been said about stem-cell therapy and the controversial research being done about its use in humans.

From the Department of Pathology and Immunology, CMU-University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.

Two Yale University scientists working on cell biology have been named as recipients of the 2010 Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health, with each recipient receiving a $2.5 million grant and laboratory support for five years.