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This Week in Nature

Mar 27, 2008

Because of how "easy" induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells are to create in the lab, many researchers are using these instead of embryonic stem cells in their studies. In this news feature, David Cyranoski separates fact from fiction about these cells.

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