The team tried this method with two types of body cells: ovarian cells from an adult and connective tissue cells from a fetus. (sciencenews.org)
These engineered brown fat cells were converted from mouse skin connective tissue cells. (sciencemag.org)
The researchers — James Robl, a developmental biologist and his colleagues at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Steve Stice at Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Massachusetts — inserted a marker gene fused with a gene for resistance to the chemical neomycin into a culture of connective tissue cells called fibroblasts. (sciencemag.org)