Reprogrammed Stem Cells Grown Inside Living Mice
Researchers have successfully reprogrammed cells in a living animal for the first time to create stem cells that have the ability to grow into any tissue found in the body.
The stem cells, known as induced pluripotent stem cells, were found to be simlar to cells found in embryos during the early stages of development.
This gives them the capacity to grow into almost any other cell into the body in the right environment.
Until now, these induced pluripotent stem cells have only ever been created in the laboratory after being removed from an animal and grown in a Petri dish.
However, researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre in Madrid, Spain, were able to create these cells in the bodies of living mice using a cocktail of "reprogramming factors".
telegraph.co.uk
