( Gladstone Institutes ) Dr. Yamanaka's laboratory in Kyoto has eliminated the need for a viral vector in the stem cell reprogramming process In a report published this week in Science, they showed the ability to reprogram adult cells into iPS cells without viral integration into the genome which lays to rest concerns that the reprogramming event might be dependent upon viral integration into specific genomic loci that could mediate the genetic switch. ...
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