New Cells from mRNA

In 2006, Shinya Yamanaka, at UCSF, showed that only four proteins were required to reprogram fully developed somatic cells into induced-pluripotent stem cells.  Now, Derrick Rossi at Harvard has used messenger RNA, instead of DNA, to reprogram skin cells that differentiate into muscle cells.             MORE

Image Credit: Phil Manos, Cell Press and Technology Review