Scientists will be able to create an entire embryo
using ordinary skin cells or other adult cells, without ever using gametes harvested from a person.
Not exact matches
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.
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-...]