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Toward safer regenerative medicine

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A newly identified surface marker on human embryonic stem cells allows rare tumor-forming cells to be removed from preparations of differentiated cells.

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Figure 1: The carbohydrate structures of SSEA-1, SSEA-3, SSEA-4 and SSEA-5 (refs. 1, 4, 8).

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Andrews, P. Toward safer regenerative medicine. Nat Biotechnol 29, 803–805 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.1974

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