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New strategies can help increase the efficiency of artificial cell reprogramming – News-Medical.net
Maria-Elena: Can you imagine being able to artificially generate cells that can develop into any cell type? That would be really fantastic! We call this ability ‘totipotency’ and it is the highest level of cellular plasticity.
Prof. Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla, Director of the Institute of Epigenetics and Stem Cells at Helmholtz Zentrum München and her colleague Dr. Adam Burton are doing pioneering work in this field.
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