4/30/2009 PERMALINK
Human skin cells changed into mouse muscle cells, then changed back "Regenerative medicine provides hope of novel and powerful treatments for many diseases, but depends on the availability of cells with specific characteristics to replace those that are lost or dysfunctional," said Stanford's Helen M. Blau, Ph.D., the senior study scientist. "We show here that mature cells can be directly reprogrammed to generate those necessary cells, providing another way besides embryonic stem cells or induced pluripotent stem cells of overcoming this important bottleneck to restoring tissue function.".... READ