title: Hot fusion.
abstract: A team from Harvard University has demonstrated that human embryonic stem cells have the capacity to reprogram an adult cell nucleus, leading to a new way of deriving human embryonic stem cell lines without using oocytes.
authors.forename: Veronique
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kiermer
mesh_terms: D018929:Cell Culture Techniques; D002459:Cell Fusion / Q000379:methods*; D002460:Cell Line; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000235:genetics*; D004622:Embryo, Mammalian / Q000166:cytology*; D006801:Humans; D013234:Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology*