Check it out, even if the acid bath proposal went downhill, this seems to have more support.
http://www.biosciencetechnology.com/blogs/2014/04/stress-may-naturally-make-stem-cells-mature-cells?
Stress or injury may naturally prompt mammals to make “extraordinary”
stem cells out of certain “ordinary” mature cells via
dedifferentiation.
Three strong papers suggesting this were quietly published within weeks of the controversial Nature
“acid bath” work, where a team from Japan’s Riken Institute, and the
US’s Harvard University, reported dedifferentiating neonatal mouse
spleen cells into stem cells by stressing them, artificially in a dish,
with coffee-mild acid.
Confidence in the “acid” work has hit a new low. It has not been
repeated. A Riken investigation found lead author Haruko Obokata
committed two acts of falsification and fabrication that may have crippled the papers—and may prompt retraction. (See Bioscience Technology stories on “acid bath” developments.)
But the other three studies – conducted by unrelated teams on
mammalian stomach, trachea, and kidney—have generated no controversy.
Two drew raves from the Faculty of 1000.
More at link. What does your doctor think?
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