Source: Washington Post
Date: August 22, 2005
Summary:
The Washington Post reports on the announcement by Harvard University researchers that skin cells have been transformed into cells that appear to have the properties of embryonic stem cells:
"Scientists for the first time have turned ordinary skin cells into what appear to be embryonic stem cells -- without having to use human eggs or make new human embryos a Harvard research team announced yesterday. The technique uses laboratory-grown human embryonic stem cells -- such as the ones that President Bush has already approved for use by federally funded researchers -- to "reprogram" the genes in a person's skin cell, turning that skin cell into an embryonic stem cell itself."
