Faster route to stem cells

Given the right conditions, any adult cell can be coaxed into becoming stem-cell like

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.