A Shortcut to Immortality: Rapid Reprogramming with Tissue Cells
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A Shortcut to Immortality: Rapid Reprogramming with Tissue Cells
In 1981, researchers working independently on two continents ushered in a new era of biomedicine by isolating stem cells from early mouse embryos and sustaining the famously finicky cells in Petri dishes. These cultured “pluripotent” cells, which can generate any of the 200-plus cell types in the body, looked and behaved like normal embryo cells, giving researchers a powerful model for understa...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Biology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1545-7885
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060275