Journal Article

This is a News and Views story that discusses the recent discovery of a chemical that allows mouse embryonic stem cells to self-renew. If this could work in human ES cells it is a major breakthrough for stem cell therapy applications, as it gets rid of complications created by animal feeder layers.

This is a really cool paper from Bert Vogelstein's lab about using bacteria to fight cancer. They have been publishing papers for the last few years using the anaerobic bacterium clostridium novyi-NT as an alternative cancer treatment. If you haven't heard about this check out this most recent paper and read some of the older papers they cite. I really love this line of thought for cancer treatment because it is a lot more out-of-the-box than other people in the cancer field are thinking right now.

DNA studies to track human migrations are being viewed skeptically by some indigenous groups.

Images of Mars that were taken years apart give the strongest evidence yet for liquid water on Mars.