A New, Improved Stem Cell Recipe.

The article focuses on a study which examines a safer way to convert adult stem cells into an embryonic state. It explores the method used to create induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells which is claimed to depend on cancer-causing retroviruses. It discusses the process of the study conducted by developmental biologists Matthias Stadtfeld, Konrad Hochedlinger and their colleagues at Harvard University and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.