From usatoday.com
Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine may have taken the controversy out of the entire field of stem cell research.
In a paper published online today in the journal Nature, they report that they were able to transform mouse skin cells directly into functioning nerve cells without needing to go through a stem cell stage first.
As they say in their paper, this “could have important implications for studies of neural development, neurological disease modeling and regenerative medicine.”
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