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Nature 461, 593 (1 October 2009) | doi:10.1038/461593b; Published online 30 September 2009

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Consent: criteria should be drawn up for tissue donors

Bernard Lo1 & Bruce R. Conklin2

  1. Program in Medical Ethics and Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
    Email: bernard.lo@ucsf.edu
  2. Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and Departments of Medicine and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco

The drive to develop new human pluripotent stem-cell lines has attracted a new, exuberant cohort of researchers who may not be familiar with the regulations and standards governing donation of human tissue. Scientists should ask donors to agree to some basic rules for research involving induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell lines derived from their tissue.

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