Stem cells made without new genes

Human pluripotent cells have been created using a virus alone

Nature News: Published online 21 June 2010

TechNyou note

This research presents more questions than answers and highlights how much we don’t know.  The fact that the viral vector can potentially have such an effect on the cell might raise interesting questions and implications for gene therapy and other research, regardless of whether the vector actually produced a true pluripotent cell or just a cancerous one.