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3D “Squeeze” Helps Adult Cells Become Stem Cells

3D “Squeeze” Helps Adult Cells Become Stem Cells

Reported by: Irina Robu, PhD

Scientists based at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne led by Matthias Lutolf have been engineering 3D extracellular matrices—gels. These scientists report that they have developed a gel that boosts the ability of normal cells to revert into stem cells by simply “squeezing” them.

The detail of the scientists’ work…