Waiting to Reprogram Your Cells? Don't Hold Your Breath by Tim Hornyak | Free Audiobook

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Title: Waiting to Reprogram Your Cells? Don't Hold Your Breath
Author: Tim Hornyak
Narrator: Jef Holbrook
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-20-17
Publisher: Scientific American
Genres: Science & Technology, Magazine & Radio

Summary:
A monitor attached to a nearby microscope shows a mass of pink and purple dots. This is the stuff from which the cartilage was grown: induced pluripotent stem cells, often called iPS cells. Scientists can create these seemingly magical cells from any cell in the body by introducing four genes, in essence turning back the cellular clock to an immature, nonspecialized state. The term pluripotent refers to the fact iPS cells can be reprogrammed to become any type of cell, from skin to liver to nerve cells. In this way they act like embryonic stem cells and share their revolutionary therapeutic potentialand as such, they could eliminate the need for using and then destroying human embryos. Also, iPS cells can proliferate infinitely.
"Waiting to Reprogram Your Cells? Don't Hold Your Breath" is from scientificamerican.com, published on March 15, 2017.

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