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August 8, 2011
Reprogramming stem cells
The U-M Consortium for Stem Cell Therapies recently achieved one of its primary goals: reprogramming adult skin cells so they behave like embryonic stem cells. The reprogrammed cells, called induced pluripotent stem cells or iPS cells, display many of the most scientifically valuable properties of embryonic stem cells while enabling researchers to bypass embryos altogether.