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How iPS cells changed the world

Induced pluripotent stem cells were supposed to herald a medical revolution. But ten years after their discovery, they are transforming biological research instead.

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Scudellari, M. How iPS cells changed the world. Nature 534, 310–312 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/534310a

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