| 1 | The Jackson Laboratory | What are induced pluripotent stem cells? | 5108 | 114 | 7 | 59.3 | positive | 0:39 | An induced play-pote stem cell is an artificially derived stem cell that is made by essentially reprogramming another cell of the body, for example, a fibroblaster, a blood cell. The Nobel Prize winning technology, the ability to express a small number of factors in the cell and essentially revert that cell back to its original stem cell form. So now it has these two abilities, I mentioned, both self-renew, which is useful for us in the lab when we want to continuously grow these cells. And then the ability, given the right biological cues, to differentiate into another cell type, like a muscle cell or a neural cell or something like that. | ↗ |