Power of stem cells unleashed

• Autores: Helen Thomson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2954, 2014, págs. 6-8
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Little stress is all it took to make new life from old. Adult cells have been given the potential to turn into any type of body tissue just by tweaking their environment. This simple change alone promises to revolutionize stem cell medicine. Yet New Scientist has also learned that this technique may have already been used to make a clone. Charles Vacanti at Harvard Medical School, co-leader of the team involved, along with Haruko Obokata at the Riken Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe Japan, and colleagues have discovered a different way to rewind adult cells--without touching the DNA. The method is striking for its simplicity: all one needs to do is place the cells in a stressful situation, such as an acidic environment.