Source: Agence France Presse (AFP)
Posted: December 23, 2007 10:29 AM PST
Summary:
Agence France Presse (AFP) reports researchers have derived stem cells with traits of embryonic stem cells from fetal lung and skin cells:
"Reporting on Sunday in Nature, a team led by George Daley of the Children's Hospital, in Boston, Massachusetts, say they have been able to use the same four genes to derive iPS from foetal lung and skin cells, from neo-natal skin cells as well as from skin samples taken from a healthy human volunteer. The research is important as it marks a step forward to "patient-specific" stem cells — in other words, transplanted stem cells that carry the same genetic code as the patient and thus cannot be rejected as alien by the body's immune system, they say."
