Embryonic stem cells need not apply

microscope Stanford researchers have turned normal skin fibroblasts from mice into functioning nerve cells without reverting them back to an embryonic-like state. The biological shortcut demonstrated in this experiment and others shows that this process could be used instead of using embryonic stem cells or reverting cells into induced-pluripotent stem cells (iPSC).

According to a January 2010 physorg.com article, "The finding could revolutionize the future of human stem cell therapy and recast our understanding of how cells choose and maintain their specialties in the body."

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Stem Cell Fact Sheets

Show Me the Treatments
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Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Putting Women at Risk

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Fact Sheet - Advances in Ethical Stem Cell Research

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The Embryonic Stem Cell Research Money Trail

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The Great Stem Cell Debate: Understanding the Basics
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