Japanese Biotech Reports New, Safer Way To Create iPS Cells
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
Japan's Dnavec, a biotech start-up company, says it found a way to create induced pluripotent stem cells by using a virus whose cells are kept intact. Dnavec's researchers said their new method goes a long way to lower the risk of the cells becoming cancerous. The work, soon to be published in a science journal, is considered significant because with the team's method the genes carried by the virus disappear after the iPS cells are created, making it far less likely they would grow out of control and form a tumor after being transplanted. (Click here for more - a subscription may be required