Cell 'rebooting' technique sidesteps risks
Date: 29.9.2008
**Virus** reprograms cells without disrupting **genome**. Scientists today announce a major advance in a technology for **engineering cells** with broad regenerative powers.
Writing in Science, a team led by biologist Konrad Hochedlinger of Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, describes how it transformed mouse tail and liver cells into an embryonic-like state.
"Nature":[ http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080925/full/news.2008.1132.html?s=news_rss]
