Re: SCI: this is kind of cool

From: Dr. John Provatopoulos B.Sc. M.D.C.M. F.R.S.C. (johnprov@sympatico.ca)
Tue Nov 20 13:30:25 2007


At Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Richard Chudacoff wrote: >
>http://www.reuters.com/article/health-SP-A/idUSN2059951020071120
>
> Huge implications, even in reproductive technolgy, apparently the asian team thinks skin fibroblasts transformed into these pluripotential stem cells can be turned into sperm and ova. One huge problem is that both teams used retorviruses to incorporate the 4-5 genes required to cause the transformation. Retroviruses can do bad things given enough time.

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                                 Take care, John




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