Source: HealthDay News
Date: May 29, 2008
Summary:
HealthDay News reports researchers at John Hopkins University have developed a stem cell line with a sickle cell anemia mutation containing cells with properties of embryonic stem cells:
"Using a faster and more efficient method of reprogramming adult stem cells to an embryonic stem cell-like state, Johns Hopkins researchers developed a human stem cell line containing the mutation associated with sickle cell anemia... Using this new method, the researchers created embryonic-like stem cells that contained the mutation that causes sickle cell anemia."
