Human blood cells – taken at doctors’ offices or hospitals – can now be reprogrammed into a state like embryonic stem cells, according to researchers.
研究人员表示，他们能把从诊所或医院里获得的人类血液细胞重组成类似胚胎干细胞功能的细胞。
Judith Staerk: You erase the memory of the blood cell, and you bring it back to a state where there is no memory. You can tell that cell to become skin again, or a neuron, or a blood cell.
朱迪斯•思得克：首先要擦除血细胞的记忆，使其成为无记忆状态，然后你再控制它成为皮肤细胞、神经细胞或血细胞。
That is Judith Staerk, lead author of a study released in July 2010. She’s with the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Ca
