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Hot fusion

Nature Methods volume 2, page 730 (2005)Cite this article

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A team from Harvard University has demonstrated that human embryonic stem cells have the capacity to reprogram an adult cell nucleus, leading to a new way of deriving human embryonic stem cell lines without using oocytes.

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  1. Hwang, W.S. et al. Patient-specific embryonic stem cells derived from human SCNT blastocysts. Science 308, 1777–1783 (2005).

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  1. Veronique Kiermer
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Kiermer, V. Hot fusion. Nat Methods 2, 730 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth1005-730a

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