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...Harvard Medical School professor Konrad A. Hochedlinger and his colleagues reported last week on the Web site of the journal Science that they have created mouse induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells without permanently altering the genetic makeup of the cells...
Researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute are one step closer to achieving the ultimate promise of stem cell research—creating tissues for every part of the body—without the use of harmful viruses or cancer-causing genes...
...technique allows scientists to genetically manipulate a patient’s cells—typically skin cells or blood cells—and reprogram them into a pluripotent state. Like embryonic stem cells, these iPS cells are then capable of morphing into any type of body tissue...
...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...
Pluripotent stem cells can potentially create any human cell. Those of the induced variety are lauded for not involving the use of controversial embryonic cells and are believed to have therapeutic uses...