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Without a trace? PiggyBac-ing toward pluripotency

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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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Figure 1: Strategies to generate transgene-free iPSCs.

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  1. Matthias Stadtfeld and Konrad Hochedlinger are in the Department of Medicine, Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Cancer Center and Center for Regenerative Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. khochedlinger@helix.mgh.harvard.edu or mstadtfeld@mgh.harvard.edu,

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