How to change cell types by flipping a single switch
Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 09:30
in Biology & Nature
With few exceptions, cells don't change type once they have become specialized—a heart cell, for example, won't suddenly become a brain cell. However, new findings by researchers at UC Santa Barbara have identified a method for changing one cell type into another in a process called forced transdifferentiation. Their work appears today in the journal Development.