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Only one percent of the human genome actually makes proteins, the building blocks of cells and tissues, and Church has sequenced roughly 20 percent of those protein-coding genes for each of the PGP-10, including himself.
HSCI co-director Douglas A. Melton and his colleagues have successfully created induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells using a chemical that can replace two of the four potentially cancer-causing genes previously needed to reprogram adult cells into a mutable state. The findings, published Sunday on the Web site of...
But Melton’s research is the first to demonstrate that scientists may be able to use chemicals instead of viruses and genes to reprogram adult cells into a more mutable state, a development long hoped for by stem cell researchers.
The next step, according to lead author Danwei Huangfu, will be to find a combination of chemicals that can replace the remaining two genes needed to create iPS cells.
Murray is among just a handful of public intellectuals who are willing to talk openly about these statistics. Most remain fearful, because such a suggestion is so counter to our feel-good conceptions of social mobility. But there is nothing about this evidence that should make us uncomfortable. The idea...