SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cascade LifeSciences Incorporated today announced that its collaborator, Dr. Shoukhrat Mitalipov, Ph.D., and Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), have made a major breakthrough in the reprogramming of primate skin cells into stem cells. The breakthrough may advance health care research/discovery and help lead to therapeutic stem cell products to combat numerous human diseases. As published in the journal Nature on November 22, 2007, Dr. Mitalipov and his team at OHSU’s Oregon National Primate Research Center are the first to successfully create monkey embryonic stem cells using a technique known as somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT). For more detail see: http://www.ohsu.edu/ohsuedu/newspub/releases/111407stemcells.cfm http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v450/n7169/abs/nature06357.html
