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Induced pluripotent stem cell technology for the study of human disease

iPS cell technology makes patient- and disease-specific human cells widely available. While technical challenges still remain, the use of these tools will greatly expand our understanding of human disease.

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Figure 1: iPSCs for studying human disease.
Figure 2: An artistic representation of iPSC-based human disease modeling.

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Lee, G., Studer, L. Induced pluripotent stem cell technology for the study of human disease. Nat Methods 7, 25–27 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.f.283

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