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The many ways to make an iPS cell

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Several new approaches for generating induced pluripotent stem cells reduce the risk of insertional mutagenesis.

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Figure 1: Three strategies to generate mouse iPS cells.

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  1. William E. Lowry is in the Department of Molecular, UCLA and Kathrin Plath is in the Department of Biological Chemistry, Cell and Developmental Biology, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA. blowry@ucla.edu or kplath@mednet.ucla.edu,

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