Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Date: June 14, 2008
Summary:
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports researchers have found a method to improve reprogramming adult stem cells into an emnbryonic stem cell-like state:
"One of the two stem cell scientists who achieved a major breakthrough last November by reprogramming human skin cells back to an embryonic state has found a way to boost the efficiency of the procedure, though he told more than 2,000 fellow researchers that challenges remain. Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University and the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease — who pioneered the reprogramming method in mice in 2006, then shared the breakthrough in human cells with James Thomson at the University of Wisconsin-Madison — said that he had achieved better results by combining his method with Thomson’s."
