Vivvo CMS 4.1 http://www.healthcanal.com/ ©2010 Spoonlabs d.o.o. http://www.healthcanal.com/files.php?file=Health News from HealthCanal.com http://www.healthcanal.com/ http://www.healthcanal.com/medical-breakthroughs/5323-Dramatic-transformation-Researchers-directly-turn-mouse-skin-cells-into-neurons-skipping-IPS-stage.html Medical Breakthroughs Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:30:00 +0000 BY KRISTA CONGER -- Even Superman needed to retire to a phone booth for a quick change. But now scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have succeeded in the ultimate switch: transforming mouse skin cells in a laboratory dish directly into functional nerve cells with the application of just three genes. The cells make the change without first becoming a pluripotent type of stem cell — a step long thought to be required for cells to acquire new identities. Health News