[ExI] UPI: Adult stem cells revert to embryonic state

[Damien Broderick]

<<http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/04/13/Adult-stem-cells-revert-to-embryonic-state/UPI-12351239649236/>http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/04/13/Adult-stem-cells-revert-to-embryonic-state/UPI-12351239649236>


>SAN FRANCISCO, April 13 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have, for 
>the first time, returned adult mouse cells to their embryonic 
>pluripotent state, meaning they can become any cell type.
>
>The University of California-San Francisco researchers said they 
>used tiny molecules called microRNAs to reprogram the cells.

Uh oh. Next step: weaponize this process. Followed by: not the gray 
goo catastrophe, but the blob or pink goo catastrophe. AKA: solution 
to the Fermi "Paradox". (Let's hope not.)

Damien Broderick