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Published online 25 September 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1132
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Cell 'rebooting' technique sidesteps risks
Virus reprograms cells without disrupting genome.
Scientists today announce a major advance in a technology for engineering cells with broad regenerative powers.
Writing in Science1, a team led by biologist Konrad Hochedlinger of Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, describes how it transformed mouse tail and liver cells into an embryonic-like state.
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