Source: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Date: April 17, 2008
Summary:
Researchers at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research have found that fully mature, differentiated B cells - immune cells that can bind to specific antigens, such as proteins from bacteria, viruses or microorganisms- can be reprogrammed to an embryonic-stem-cell-like state, without the use of an egg according to a study published in the April 18 issue of Cell.
