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What are some recent breakthroughs or findings that haven't received much attention? (sh.itjust.works)

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[-] CrackaAssCracka@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Do you have a link for the paper that describes the process for converting blood into stem cells? Curious how they went about it because making red blood cells into stem cells would be hard since they have no nucleus and no DNA. I googled but couldn't find anything about how they do it.

[-] jeffhykin@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Fair warning, I was only taking Hon's word for it in my original comment.

That said, the magic term that will get you a flood of journal articles is "induced pluripotent stem cells ( iPSCs)" and this article a good overview/context to the work.

I'll edit my comment to include the link

[-] CrackaAssCracka@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks, that looks legit, especially considering they got a Nobel for the process. Red blood cells wouldn't work though, no genetic material to tell the cell what to do. Skin cells sure but deeper layers before they ditch their nucleus. The bottom layer of your epidermis is already made of stem cells that continuously produce new keratinocytes (skin cells). That'd make sense as a starting point for what they did. I've been in medicine for seven years and there have been all kinds of crazy claims made but researchers so I'm always skeptical.

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