Researchers identify key factor for reprogramming adult cells into stem cells

Thursday, April 21, 2016 - 11:01 in Biology & Nature

In a new Cell Reports paper, a team led by John P. Cooke, M.D., Ph.D., of the Houston Methodist Research Institute, has identified and characterized a biological factor critical to the transformation of adult somatic cells (cells that are not sperm or egg cells) into stem cells.

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