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Flab, Freckles Could Help Stem Cell Research Tuesday, September 08, 2009 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Medicine   
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Fat cells and pigment-producing skin cells can be reprogrammed into stem cells much faster and more efficiently than the skin cells that are usually used — suggesting large bellies and little black moles could provide much-needed material for deriving patient-specific stem cells. "More than one type of adult somatic cell can serve as a target for reprogramming to a pluripotent state," says William Lowry, a stem-cell biologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. (source: nature.com)
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