Jef Akst | Dec 20, 2009 | 3 min read
Scientists have identified a key component of cellular reprogramming that may aid in more efficiently creating induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, according to a study published online in Nature today (December 21). Mouse embryonic stem cellsImage: Wikimedia commons"This [research] is pretty astonishing," molecular biologist Xiangru Xu of linkurl:Yale University;http://www.yale.edu/ wrote in an email to The Scientist. "This study provides a specific epigenetic mechanism [for] the pluripotent