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US attitudes toward human embryonic stem cell research

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Figure 1: Social influences on US attitudes to procedures involving hESCs or iPSCs.

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Evans, M., Kelley, J. US attitudes toward human embryonic stem cell research. Nat Biotechnol 29, 484–488 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.1891

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