The Promise of Regenerative Medicine

A colony of human iPS cells established from fibroblasts. The width of the colony is about 0.5 mm. (Photo courtesy of Yamanaka Shin’ya)

Professor Yamanaka Shin’ya of Kyoto University, photographed in July 2016. (© Jiji)

Tanks storing the iPS cell stock at the Facility for iPS Cell Therapy (FiT) in CiRA. (Photo courtesy of CiRA)

Dopamine-producing nerve cells induced from human iPS cells. (Photo courtesy of Morizane Asuka, CiRA)