Bypassing Stem Cells: Adult Skin Cells Turned Into Muscle Cells And Vice Versa

Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 22:35 in Biology & Nature

Researchers are now 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.

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