A special mouse: This rodent grew from an embryo made with induced pluripotent stem cells, which were derived from adult skin cells.
Credit: Qi Zhou and Zhuo Lv
New publications, experiments and breakthroughs in biomedicine--and what they mean.
Mice from Skin Cells
Reprogrammed cells develop into live animals.
Source: "iPS cells produce viable mice through tetraploid complementation"
Qi Zhou et al.
Nature 461: 86-90
"iPS cells can support full-term development of tetraploid blastocyst-complemented embryos"
Shaorong Gao et al.
Cell Stem Cell 5: 135-138
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