This would be consistent with the above-mentioned studies showing that cells can be reprogrammed by a wide range of combinations of genes and small molecules.
In a level set in 2025, American drones are reprogrammed by a terrorist to bomb Los Angeles.
An apt analogy is that their mental software has been reprogrammed by a computer virus-like phenomenon.
Similar to the first report of Takahashi and Yamanaka, many different cell types have been reprogrammed by a combination of exogenous transcription factors.
Moreover, we have provided proof of principle that histone PTM signatures associated with cancer can be reprogrammed by the natural product garcinol, a dietary compound with a traditional use as a chemopreventive agent.
Th1 and Th2 cytokines can be co-expressed by T-cell clones in vitro 4, 5, and in vitro generated Th2 cells can be reprogrammed by Th1-promoting lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus to adopt a Gata3+T-bet+ phenotype 6.
They are suffering from a mental illness and cannot be "reprogrammed" by violence.
Senescence is a genetically programmed trait that can potentially be reprogrammed by several molecular breeding strategies such as marker-assisted selection.
The ease with which the Cas nuclease can be reprogrammed by supplying alternative gRNAs has led to its exceptionally rapid adoption as a genetic tool in a wide variety of organisms [ 7].
Importantly, these heritable marks, termed epigenetic modifications, can also be reprogrammed by environmental signals.
