Using now - standard techniques, they put those cells through a biological time machine, returning them to an embryo - like stem cell state. (statnews.com)
«We've not had cell surface markers for the different stem cell states before, which has made it hard to study them,» says Fredrik Lanner, assistant professor at Karolinska Institutet's Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology. (sciencedaily.com)
Ecker, working closely with Jaenisch and other collaborators at Whitehead and the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, wanted to see whether these new techniques aiming to induce the naïve stem cell state truly did that. (sciencedaily.com)