Thursday, January 23, 2014

iPSC :)

This article was so interesting, especially to me since for some reason I've been thinking about not dying since I was little. In my opinions its considering this technology, it really doesn't have much of a morality issue since the ultimate goal of science and medicine is to benefit the human kind, or in this case, let us live longer. Induced pluripotent stems cells do not need eggs to revert to the embroylike state and that is simply mind blowing to me because embryos are basically evolved eggs. Also, the fact that it can convert into 220 different human cells was amazing since you can target whatever cell you want to regrow which makes things a lot easier. Because of these iPSC cells, there is a possibility for many cells that usually stop at the G1 interphase to keep reproducing thus increasing our life span.
Below shows how cells can be reprogrammed into iPSC cells:

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