Japanese scientists, in collaboration with Professor Vacanti of Harvard, Boston, report that they have created pluripotent stem cells by simply bathing blood cells in a weakly acidic solution for half an hour, triggering a remarkable reversion to the cells’ original embryonic state.
They have called the technique stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency (STAP).
BBC article here. | Discussion and review by Dr. Paul Knoepfler here