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Tracing the genesis of human embryonic stem cells

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When human blastocysts are cultured in vitro to derive embryonic stem cells, they undergo profound molecular changes that alter their identity.

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Figure 1: Adaptation of human pluripotent cells during ESC derivation.

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  1. Ariel Pribluda and Jacob H. Hanna are in the Department of Molecular Genetics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.,

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