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-...]
For the new study, the team used a
cell -
reprogramming technique (similar to those used to
reprogram skin cells into stem
cells) to generate human DRG - type sensory neurons from
ordinary skin cells called fibroblasts.