(January 29, 2014 at 2:28 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25917270
Quote:Stem cell researchers are heralding a "major scientific discovery", with the potential to start a new age of personalised medicine.
Scientists in Japan showed stem cells can now be made quickly just by dipping blood cells into acid.
I've always said that dumping red blood cells into an acid bath would trigger pluripotency!
No one listens to me!

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