New reprogramming factor cocktail produces therapy-grade induced pluripotent stem cells

Induced pluripotent stem cells -adult cells reprogrammed back to an embryonic stem cell-like state-may hold the potential to cure damaged nerves, regrow limbs and organs, and perfectly model a patient's particular disease. Yet through the reprogramming process, these cells can acquire serious genetic and epigenetic abnormalities that lower the cells' quality and limit their therapeutic usefulness.

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