Patient-specific pluripotent stem cells become even more accessible

Shinya Yamanaka

doi:10.1016/j.stem.2010.06.009

Patient-specific pluripotent stem cells become even more accessible

Cell Stem Cell. 2010 Jul 2;7(1):1-2. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2010.06.009.

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Shinya Yamanaka¹

Affiliation

¹ Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan. yamanaka@cira.kyoto-u.ac.jp

PMID: 20621038
DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2010.06.009

Abstract

In this issue of Cell Stem Cell, Staerk et al. (2010), Seki et al. (2010), and Loh et al. (2010) each describe the derivation of human iPSCs from peripheral blood. Although seemingly incremental, this advance brings the stem cell field an important step closer to eventual clinical use.

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