Wednesday, June 06, 2007

UCLA researchers reprogram normal tissue cells into embryonic stem cells

Source: University of California - Los Angeles
Date: June 6, 2007

Summary:

Researchers at the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine at UCLA were able to take normal tissue cells and reprogram them into cells with the same unlimited properties as embryonic stem cells, the cells that are able to give rise to every cell type found in the body.