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. 2009 Jan 9;4(1):3-4.
doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2008.12.002. Epub 2008 Dec 18.

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

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

Alan Trounson. Cell Stem Cell. .
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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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