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Stem cell match-making

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Korean researchers, in collaboration with American scientists, have generated the world's first patient-specific human embryonic stem cells (hESCs), with promising implications for future therapeutic strategies.

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  1. Hwang, W.S. et al. Patient-specific embryonic stem cells derived from human SCNT blastocysts. Science; published online 19 May 2005.

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Eisenstein, M. Stem cell match-making. Nat Methods 2, 482–483 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth0705-482b

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