Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Retain Some Gene Expression Of Donor Cells
Saturday, September 19, 2009 - 00:28
in Biology & Nature
A team of researchers has developed a safe strategy for reprogramming cells to a pluripotent state without use of viral vectors or genomic insertions. Their studies reveal that these induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are very similar to human embryonic stem cells, yet maintain a "transcriptional signature."