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Scientists recently confirmed a breakthrough for creating pluripotent stem cells using adult cells, not embryos. In Focus takes a look at the breakthrough on this technically-simple procedure that reprograms adult cells into embryonic-like stem cells. Read an introductory commentary by Senior Fellow Dr. Christian Brugger.

News

Simple Switch Turns Cells Embryonic
Nature

Biologists Make Skin Cells Work Like Stem Cells
New York Times

Scientists Use Skin to Create Stem Cells
Washington Post

Scientists: Finding Mimics Embryonic Stem Cells
AP/CNN

Stem Cells: Japan Gets Ahead of the Curve
Time

Yamanaka's original paper in Cell (Aug. '06): Induction of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Mouse Embryonic and Adult Fibroblast Cultures by Defined Factors






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