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> http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129542.500?cmpid=NLC|NSNS|2014-0130-GLOBAL&utm_medium=NLC&utm_source=NSNS&-"Now, Vacanti, along with Haruko Obokata at the Riken Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, and colleagues have discovered a different way to rewind adult cells ... without touching the DNA. The method is striking for its simplicity: all you need to do is place the cells in a stressful situation, such as an acidic environment."-It seems that putting adult human cells... under selective pressure puts them into a state that they can become any other kind of cell. -This directly undermines the idea that natural selection is incapable of massive, rapid changes in the development of an organism. If, given enough pressure, a bone cell can be coaxed into a neuron, or skin cell, or an eye cell... then it stands to reason that the same plasticity applies to the entire organism.
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