Source: ABC News
Date: June 6, 2007
Summary:
ABC News reports on new research in which adult stem cells were made to function like embryonic stem cells:
"Stem cell researchers may have taken the first steps toward conducting stem cell research without having to take the controversial step of destroying human embryos. Rudolf Jaenisch of MIT's Whitehead Institute, Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University and Konrad Hochedlinger of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute published papers in Nature and the new journal Cell Stem Cell that reveal a genetic fountain of youth that "rewinds the clock" on adult mouse cells." The researchers successfully used adult tissue to yield cells that look and function like stem cells. They hope that the findings will eventually lead to the creation of the same type of stem cell in humans that could be used in medical research.
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