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SUBMITTER: Inoue H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3989624 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The EMBO journal 20140205 5
The induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology is instrumental in advancing the fields of disease modeling and cell transplantation. We herein discuss the various issues regarding disease modeling and cell transplantation presented in previous reports, and also describe new iPSC-based medicine including iPSC clinical trials. In such trials, iPSCs from patients can be used to predict drug responders/non-responders by analyzing the efficacy of the drug on iPSC-derived cells. They could also b ...[more]