Not All They're Cracked Up to Be?

Mar 04, 2011

In the past couple of months, researchers have sounded some alarms about induced pluripotent stem cells, says Not Exactly Rocket Science's Ed Yong. There have always been reasons to think that iPSCs aren't exactly like human embryonic stem cells, but now researchers have reason to be concerned about the differences.

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