What scientists would like to tell you about reprogramming (if only they knew!)

• Autores: Michele Boiani, Jose B. Cibelli
• Localización: International journal of developmental biology, ISSN 0214-6282, Vol. 54, Nº. 11-12, 2010 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Animal Cloning & Cell Reprogramming), págs. 1541-1543
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In a famous Science editorial entitled "Will Society Be Prepared?", Nobel Laureate Marshall Nirenberg envisioned the possibility that cells would be "programmed with synthetic messages within 25 years" (Nirenberg, 1967). Whether Nirenberg held messenger RNAs capable as such of (re)programming cells, is not known, but clearly he considered them as instrumental to achieve (re)programming...