Johns Hopkins researchers develop safer way to make induced pluripotent stem cells

Wednesday, February 2, 2011 - 12:30 in Biology & Nature

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have found a better way to create induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells - adult cells reprogrammed with the properties of embryonic stem cells - from a small blood sample. This new method, described last week in Cell Research, avoids creating DNA changes that could lead to tumour formation...

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