Rats, cats, and elephants, but still no unicorn: induced pluripotent stem cells from new species.

Trounson, Alan · Cell Stem Cell · 2009

editorial · Level V

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Abstract

Two independent studies in this issue of Cell Stem Cell (Liao et al., 2009; Li et al., 2009) derive rat induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). In one report, the method used results in rat and human iPSCs that exhibit phenotypic traits similar to mouse embryonic stem cells.

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