http://home.kyodo.co.jp/modules/fstStory/index.php?storyid=351087
*Kyoto Univ. researchers generate iPS cells more safely*
A team of Kyoto University researchers have succeeded in reprogramming
human skin cells to create induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells,
without using an oncogene, a cancer-inducing gene, the U.S. journal Nature
Biotechnology said Friday in its online edition.
The results show that researchers, led by Shinya Yamanaka, are now able
to obtain iPS cells more safely. Up to now researchers have programmed four
genes including an oncogene in skin cells to generate iPS cells, which have
the potential to grow into various kinds of body cells.
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