Cells Induced to ‘De-Differentiate’ Back into Stem Cells
March 16, 2004 | Source: KurzweilAI
For the first time, researchers have induced differentiating cells to revert to being stem cells. The achievement with the fruit fly Drosophila suggests that de-differentiation should be explored as yet another route to generating stem cells for therapeutic purposes.
The researchers reported their findings in the March 14, 2004, advanced online edition of the journal Nature.