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Article: Health Highlights: May 29, 2009; Scientists Turn Skin Cells Into Stem Cells Malaria Showing Signs of Drug Resistance Deadly New Virus Identified in Africa Genes Main Cause of Premature Ejaculation: Study.(briefs)
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- May 29, 2009
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Scientists Turn Skin Cells Into Stem Cells
Scientists who found a safe way to transform skin cells into stem cells say their achievement is an important step forward in making grow-in-a-dish transplant tissue available to patients.
The researchers used four introduced genes to reprogram skin cells to become indistinguishable from stem cells, Agence France Presse reported. The results, published online in the journal Cell Stem Cell, are so promising that the scientists hope to begin clinical trials by the middle of 2010.
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