Qi Zhou, Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Zoology (IMAGE)

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Qi Zhou, Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Zoology

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Qi Zhou, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Zoology, last summer announced that his team had reprogrammed somatic cells of mice, injected them into embryos and created 27 live offspring, which clearly demonstrated that induced-pluripotent stem cells can, like embryonic stem cells, produce healthy adults.

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