Source: Reuters
Posted: June 2, 2009 8:09pm EDT
Summary:
Reuters reports researchers have turn cells from pigs into stem cells that may be able to treat human disease:
"Researchers have found a way to transform ordinary cells from pigs into powerful stem cells in a move that may have implications for human health. With these stem cells, they hope to modify porcine genes that are related to the immune system so that its organs may some day be used for people in need of transplants. In an article published in the Journal of Molecular Cell Biology, the researchers from China described how they managed to re-program ordinary cells taken from the ear and bone marrow of a 10-week-old pig using a virus."
