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Published online 22 April 2009 | Nature 458, 962-965 (2009) | doi:10.1038/458962a
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Stem cells: Fast and furious
The field of induced pluripotent stem cells has gone from standing start to headlong rush in less than three years. Monya Baker charts the course so far, and the obstacles ahead.
Back in spring 2007, Shinya Yamanaka thought he had a safe head start in a scientific race. Less than six months earlier he had demonstrated a technique that turned run-of-the-mill body cells into ones much like mouse embryonic stem cells1.
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