Article: Skin cells reprogrammed as embyonic stem cells.(News)(Brief article)

Article: Scientists turn skin cells into stem ...
Post-Tribune (IN);  August 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... turned ordinary skin cells into what appear to be embryonic stem cells -- without having ... person's own skin cells, the DNA in those new stem cells matches the DNA ... imposed upon the skin cells by the fused stem cells requires the initial ...

Article: University of Colorado Denver Researchers Find Safer Method for ...
Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  August 21, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... new way to convert human skin cells to stem cells. In late 2007, a Japanese ... transformed mouse and human skin cells into stem cells which behave and function ... valuable work of transforming skin cells to stem cells - cells that can be used ...

Article: UW BREAKTHROUGH RESEARCH TEAMS HERE AND IN KYOTO REPROGRAM ...
The Capital Times (Madison, WI);  November 20, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... reprogrammed human skin cells to create cells indistinguishable from embryonic stem cells. The achievement ... that of embryonic stem cells. Finding a combination ... transforming differentiated skin cells to undifferentiated stem cells helps resolve a ...

Article: A heart breakthrough to beat Barnard's; It's almost science ...
The Star (South Africa);  December 6, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... been discovered that stem cells can be extracted from ordinary skin cells. These stem cells - which have the ability ... the US and Japan showed stem cells could be easily accessed by reprogramming skin cells, it was possible to ...

Article: Mouse method turns skin cells to stem ...
Science News;  July 14, 2007 ;     682 words ... ... Scientists have reprogrammed mouse skin cells to mimic embryonic stem cells that can morph into any type ... less than 0.1 percent of skin cells that became fully reprogrammed ... the completely reprogrammed stem cells. The team implanted some of ...

Article: Health Highlights: May 29, 2009; Scientists Turn Skin ...
Consumer Health News (English);  May 29, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Scientists Turn Skin Cells Into Stem Cells Scientists who found a safe way to transform skin cells into stem cells say their achievement ... genes to reprogram skin cells to become indistinguishable from stem cells, Agence France Presse ...

Article: Skin cells and stem cells.(LETTERS)
The Washington Times;  November 28, 2007 ;     672 words ... ... and behave like embryonic stem cells can be produced from adult stem cells, making the unethical ... research unnecessary ("Skin cells alter stem-cell debate ... paper, "Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Without Cloning or Destroying ...