Drug makes stem cells become 'embryonic' again

Thursday, March 17, 2016 - 18:24 in Biology & Nature

If you want to harness the full power of stem cells, all you might need is an eraser -- in the form of a drug that can erase the tiny labels that tell cells where to start reading their DNA. In a surprising new finding, scientists have shown that mouse stem cells treated with the drug reverted to an 'embryonic' state.

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