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Researchers have previously attempted to create iPS cells using retroviruses, though it was feared these could activate cancer genes.
Hochedlinger and his team have therefore proven that viruses do not need to be integrated into the human genome in order to create iPS cells, according to the release.
He said he hopes to make the leap to working with human specimens in order to test whether iPS cells may serve as a substitute for embryonic stem cells.
Konrad Hochedlinger and other scientists from HSCI, Mass. General Hospital and the Joslin Diabetes Center announced that they have created mouse iPS cells using adenoviruses, according to a press release.
Despite the relative efficiency of this approach, both Melton and Daley stressed that direct reprogramming does not eliminate the need to continue work with iPS cells or human embryonic stem cells. Melton explained that it is simply another way of approaching the same problem scientists face in regenerative medicineâ?...