Developmental reprogramming: Take a cell, any cell ...

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Dennis, C
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[1] Nature's Australasian correspondent,
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10.1038/426490a
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
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Can an adult human cell be turned back to an embryonic state without the need for cloning? If so, ethical objections to personalized regenerative medicine would be swept away. Carina Dennis reports.
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