Potential cancer-causing genes removed from engineered stem cells
Thursday, March 5, 2009 - 15:49
in Biology & Nature
Whitehead Institute researchers have developed a novel method of removing potential cancer-causing genes during the reprogramming of skin cells from Parkinson's disease patients into an embryonic-stem-cell-like state.
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