Acidified Skin makes stem cells makes embroyos

h/t to David Haith on Dorset Humanists https://www.facebook.com/groups/dorsethumanists/permalink/10152547756058943/?stream_ref=2

http://www.nature.com/news/acid-bath-offers-easy-path-to-stem-cells-1.14600
Cells isolated from newborn mice lose their identity on exposure to mildly acidic conditions. Remarkably, instead of triggering cell death or tumour growth, as might be expected, a new cell state emerges that exhibits an unprecedented potential for differentiation into every possible cell type.

http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1038/505622a?utm_campaign=readcube_access&utm_source=nature.com&utm_medium=purchase_option&utm_content=thumb_version I'm proud to say that I was at a conference at which Ian Wilmot announced 'Dolly the Sheep' a few weeks after his paper in Nature was published: http://www.readcube.com/articles/10.1038/385810a0 - the above Haruko Obokata paper could have similar profound implications for science.

 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v505/n7485/full/nature12968.html original article by Haruko Obokata (behind paywall) - stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP)

http://bcove.me/easi4d8p Human skin cells have been turned into stem cells .... (play fullscreen)


http://bcove.me/xmyex5vq ....which have the potential to develop into fully-formed embryos, simply by bathing them in weak citric acid for half an hour. (play fullscreen)


^^ this is the most extraordinary thing I'v seen in years!!! ^^

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25967136 - Obakata to win Nobel Prize?