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Article: STEM CELL RESEARCHERS REPROGRAM NORMAL TISSUE CELLS INTO CELLS WITH THE SAME PROPERTIES AS EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- June 7, 2007
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The University of California at Los Angeles issued the following press release:
Researchers at the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine at UCLA were able to take normal tissue cells and reprogram them into cells with the same unlimited properties as embryonic stem cells, the cells that are able to give rise to every cell type found in the body.
The work, done in mouse models, appears in the inaugural June 7 issue of the journal Cell Stem Cell, published by Cell Press. UCLA researchers, working closely with stem cell scientists at Harvard University, took mouse fibroblasts, cells that develop into connective tissue, and added four transcription factors that bind to special sites on ...