Liquid Gold: Liposuction and Stem Cells

As reported by The Stanford School of Medicine, researchers have found that adult fat tissue can be coaxed into becoming pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells).  Not only is this new resource readily available, research shows that converting fat cells to iPS cells is 20 times more effiecient than the traditional conversion from skin cells.  Not only are they getting a greater amount of cells to change, but they are also getting them to change quicker!

This is a great advance into developing patient-specific iPS lines in the future.  I'm going to try to renew my JSTOR account today, so hopefully I can add a little more to this article once I read the published paper.