Updated: 10 Nov 2009 at 11:08 am
Faster route to stem cells
Nature News: http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091108/full/news.2009.1070.html?s=news_rss
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, USA: researchers were also able cut the time required for cells to become stem-cell like by around half – good news for those battling to work out the complex biology of these cells, know as induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells.