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What experiments have been done to convert normal cells into stem cells?

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Japanese researchers used viruses in 2007 to transfer genes to human skin cells and induce those cells to become stem cells, and U.S. researchers have used similar induced stem cells in mice experimentally to treat sickle-cell disease.

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