A safer way to reprogram adult stem cells (online, issue)

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Reprogrammed stem cells with no viral baggage

Friday, 27 March 2009
by Lisa Merolla

Cosmos Online

Skin-derived precursor cells. Are adult stem cells getting closer to therapeutic use?
Credit: Freda Miller




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SYDNEY: A safer way of reprogramming adult stem cells to act like embryonic stem cells has been devised by American researchers, overcoming a major obstacle to their therapeutic use, today's issue of Science reported.



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