They have found a way to turn ordinary skin cells into a type of fat that burns rather than stores calories. (sciencemag.org)
Just three years since a Japanese researcher first reprogrammed ordinary skin cells into stem cells without the use of embryos, scientists at a Massachusetts biotech company have repeated the feat, only this time with a new method that creates the first stem cells safe enough for -LSB-...] (robertlanza.com)
The idea fell out of favour following the scandal of 2005, and after the development of a way to turn ordinary skin cells into so - called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells), which behave rather like hESCs. (newscientist.com)