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BIOETHICS: Medical breakthrough: researchers turn skin cells into T-cells

Patrick J. ByrneJun 1, 20023 min read

While Australian scientists are attempting to pressure the Federal Government to allow them to harvest spare human IVF embryos for research, scientists at the University of Oslo have discovered a way to transform ordinary human skin cells into immune cells, potentially making even the use of adult stem cells, let alone embryo stem cells, obsolete.Researchers, James Robl, Philippe Collas and colleagues, at the…