Article: Scientists successfully create stem cells from skin cells.

Byline: ANI

Washington, Dec 4 (ANI): For the first time, scientists have created induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell lines by using skin cells from adult monkey skin cells.

The study has shown that the method of direct reprogramming is conserved among species and may be useful for creation of clinically valuable primate models for human diseases.

While earlier studies have demonstrated that the induction of four key transcription factors can reprogram adult mouse and human skin cells into iPS cells, but iPS cells have not been created in other species as yet.

"We sought to generate monkey iPS cells from skin cells isolated an adult ...

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