A transposon-based approach has been added to the growing arsenal of technologies to produce transgene-free and potentially safer induced pluripotent stem cells.
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Stadtfeld, M., Hochedlinger, K. Without a trace? PiggyBac-ing toward pluripotency. Nat Methods 6, 329–330 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth0509-329
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