This could be important for copd - but sadly, only in the long term
Adult skin cells can be turned into pluripotent stem cells by dosing them with messenger RNA sequences corresponding to stem cell-related transcription factors, researchers found.
The manoeuvre allowed a team at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute in Cambridge, Mass., led by Derrick Rossi, PhD, to force reversion of adult fibroblasts to an immature stem-cell state without using viral vectors or other methods that potentially alter the cells' genomes.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/PublicHealthPolicy/StemCellResearch/22494?utm_content=GroupCL&utm_medium=email&impressionId=1285912760620&utm_campaign=DailyHeadlines&utm_source=mSpoke&userid=124707
Adult skin cells can be turned into pluripotent stem cells by dosing them with messenger RNA sequences corresponding to stem cell-related transcription factors, researchers found.
The manoeuvre allowed a team at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute in Cambridge, Mass., led by Derrick Rossi, PhD, to force reversion of adult fibroblasts to an immature stem-cell state without using viral vectors or other methods that potentially alter the cells' genomes.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/PublicHealthPolicy/StemCellResearch/22494?utm_content=GroupCL&utm_medium=email&impressionId=1285912760620&utm_campaign=DailyHeadlines&utm_source=mSpoke&userid=124707