Improved methods for human pluripotent stem cell culture and for reprogramming of human somatic cells to pluripotency may bring us closer to the routine generation of personalized pluripotent stem cells.
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Rao, M. Keeping things simple. Nat Methods 8, 389–390 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1598
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