Johns Hopkins researchers make stem cells from developing sperm

Thursday, August 6, 2009 - 11:56 in Biology & Nature

The promise of stem cell therapy may lie in uncovering how adult cells revert back into a primordial, stem cell state, whose fate is yet to be determined. Now, cell scientists at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have identified key molecular players responsible for this reversion in fruit fly sperm cells.

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