Commentary


Nature Biotechnology 27, 606 - 613 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nbt0709-606

Developing safe therapies from human pluripotent stem cells

Melissa K Carpenter1, Joyce Frey-Vasconcells2 & Mahendra S Rao3

  1. Melissa K. Carpenter is at the Carpenter Group, San Diego, California, USA
    e-mail: m_carpenter@mac.com
  2. Joyce Frey-Vasconcells is at Pharmanet Consulting, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
  3. Mahendra S. Rao is at Invitrogen Corp., Frederick, Maryland, USA.


Translation of human pluripotent stem cells into cell therapies will require the development of standardized tests for product consistency, stability, tumorigenicity, toxicity and immunogenicity.

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