• Question: Can you make stems cell?

    Asked by Lang to Ben, Francis, Max on 15 Mar 2018.
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      Max Jamilly answered on 15 Mar 2018:

      Yes! A Japanese man named Yamanaka won the Nobel prize for this in 2012. You can add a cocktail of just four special chemicals to any adult cell and it will turn back into a stem cell. These are called induced pluripotent stem cells.

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