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SUBMITTER: Sayed N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5086255 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sayed Nazish N Liu Chun C Wu Joseph C JC
Journal of the American College of Cardiology 20160501 18
The prospect of changing the plasticity of terminally differentiated cells toward pluripotency has completely altered the outlook for biomedical research. Human-induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) provide a new source of therapeutic cells free from the ethical issues or immune barriers of human embryonic stem cells. iPSCs also confer considerable advantages over conventional methods of studying human diseases. Since its advent, iPSC technology has expanded with 3 major applications: disease m ...[more]