Stanford scientists turn adult skin cells into muscle and vice versa
Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 09:49
in Biology & Nature
In a study featured on the cover of the May issue of The FASEB Journal, researchers describe how they are able to reprogram human adult skin cells into other cell types in order to decipher the elusive mechanisms underlying reprogramming. To demonstrate their point, they transformed human skin cells into mouse muscle cells and vice versa.