Scripps team manipulates skin cells to breed mice

August 4, 2009

A team at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla says it bred live mice from mouse skin cells, advancing a technique that could offer an alternative to the controversial use of embryonic stem cells. The work, reported online yesterday by the journal Nature, involves reprogramming normal cells to create what are known as induced pluripotent stem cells. (SignOn San Diego)