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Stem cells: The growing pains of pluripotency

The field of induced pluripotent stem cells has grown up fast. Now it is entering the difficult stage.

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Erika Check Hayden is a senior reporter for Nature based in San Francisco.

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Check Hayden, E. Stem cells: The growing pains of pluripotency. Nature 473, 272–274 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/473272a

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