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I'm a few weeks behind in this news but it seems that an astoundingly simple way of producing pluripotent stem cells has been discovered. The method is being called stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency and involves a transient exposure to low pH.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v505/n7485/full/nature12968.html
The work still has to be reproduced but at the moment STAP cells seem to show all the hallmarks of pluripotency. If this turns out to be a valid method it would provide a far simpler and presumably more controllable way of creating stem cells than any other method.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v505/n7485/full/nature12968.html
The work still has to be reproduced but at the moment STAP cells seem to show all the hallmarks of pluripotency. If this turns out to be a valid method it would provide a far simpler and presumably more controllable way of creating stem cells than any other method.
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