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Japan ramps up patent effort to keep iPS lead

United States in race to commercialize pluripotent stem cells.

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Cyranoski, D. Japan ramps up patent effort to keep iPS lead. Nature 453, 962–963 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/453962a

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