Figure 1: In search of factors that induce haematopoietic stem cells. During embryonic development, HSCs arise from vascular cells that line the aorta, and the cells continue to require signals from ...

Researchers at the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine at UCLA were able to take normal tissue cells and reprogram them into cells with the same unlimited properties as embryonic stem cells, ...

MicroRNAs offer the most efficient method yet devised for reprogramming somatic cells to pluripotent stem cells. In contrast to transcription factors, miRNAs have received much less attention from the ...

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Newly described stretches of super-silenced DNA reveal a fresh approach to reprogram cell identity to use in regenerative medicine studies and one day in the clinic. Newly described stretches of super ...