• Question: Do you think that in years to come we could ever use cells in a whole new way that we would think was super-human today?

    Asked by spriggy123 to Amanda on 6 Mar 2017.
    • Photo: Amanda Barnes

      Amanda Barnes answered on 6 Mar 2017:


      Most probably!

      In the last decade we have been able to reprogramme a skin cell.

      By changing what is inside a cell, scientists have been able to turn them back into a younger, more immature cell that can then turn into something else other than a skin cell.

      That was quite super-human before it happened!

      This is called induced pluripotent stem cells if you wanted to look it up.

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