Epigenetics: What the embryo can teach us about cell reprogramming

(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Cell reprogramming provides an outstanding opportunity for the artificial generation of stem cells for regenerative medicine approaches in the clinic. As current cell reprogramming methods are low in efficiency, researchers around the globe aim to learn lessons from the early embryo which might lead them to a more efficient and faster generation of high-quality, fully reprogrammed stem cells.