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Chinese scientists create live mice from skin cells

July 25, 2009 by srrpenna

Chinese scientists have reported an important advance in the characterization of certain stem cells by creating live mice through reprogrammed skin cells.

In an online paper published Thursday in the U.S. journal Cell Stem Cell, the scientists reported that a specific iPS cell line gave an unusually high level of chimerism when injected into blastocysts (an early embryo) and thus might have unique characteristics not found in many other iPS cell lines.

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