A simple lab treatment can turn ordinary cells from mice into stem cells, according to a surprising study that hints at a possible new way to grow tissue for treating illnesses like diabetes and Parkinsons disease. Researchers in Boston and Japan exposed cells from spleens of newborn mice to a more acidic environment that theyre used to. In lab tests, that turned them into stem cells, showing enough versatility to produce the tissues of a mouse embryo, for example.
Posted on: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 17:02:40 +0000
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