Seeking superior stem cells: 100-fold increase in efficiency in reprogramming human cells to induced stem cells
Monday, October 10, 2011 - 14:30
in Biology & Nature
Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have today announced a new technique to reprogramme human cells, such as skin cells, into stem cells. Their process increases the efficiency of cell reprogramming by one hundred-fold and generates cells of a higher quality at a faster rate.