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Published online 27 June 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050627-1
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Rebooted cells tackle ethical concerns
Fusion technique resets adult skin cells to embryonic state.
Scientists who want to study the special properties of stem cells may be able to use a new technique to avoid some of the practical and ethical pitfalls of stem-cell research.
On 24 June, Kevin Eggan of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute told an international scientific meeting that his lab has fused a human embryonic stem cell to an adult skin cell.
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