Chemical-Induced Conversion of Amniotic Fluid Stem Cells into Pluripotent State

Any potential development in this area deserves attention...

"Pluripotent" cells...stem cells...may eventually have the potential to serve as an aid to repair--on the fly--whatever ails us (e.g., heart tissue damage (nations #1 killer))...

Demand for organ transplantation is steadily increasing...supply is limited...

Artificially resetting amniotic fluid cells to a pluripotent state is a potential stepping stone to producing "regenerative" therapies...to my understanding, up to this point, these cells have only been harvest-able, for research, from the placenta or cord...

Very interesting article...thanks for posting...