Scientists isolate new population of pluripotent stem cells in fat removed during liposuction

Wednesday, June 5, 2013 - 16:01 in Biology & Nature

Researchers from the UCLA Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology have isolated a new population of primitive, stress-resistant human pluripotent stem cells easily derived from fat tissue that are able to differentiate into virtually every cell type in the human body without genetic modification.

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