Life Sciences
Researchers from Children's Hospital Boston, Division of Hematology-Oncology provide details of new studies and findings in the area of life sciences
Published in Cancer Weekly, June 16th, 2009
New research, 'Cellular reprogramming and pluripotency induction,' is the subject of a report. "Cellular reprogramming is the process of directing mature cells to a primitive state of gene expression. OF DATA: Medline searches using the keywords 'pluripotency', 'induce' (and derivatives), and/or 'stem' limited to the years 2006 to the present and other selected literature known to the author," investigators in the United States report.
"AREAS OF AGREEMENT: Since 2006, there has been a cavalcade of scientific works describing so-called 'direct reprogramming' wherein somatic cells are forced into a state of gene expression very similar to embryonic stem cells. These...
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Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-06-16)
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