Human embryonic stem cells handbook

Submitted: 4 December 2012
Accepted: 4 December 2012
Published: 12 March 2013
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After the Nobel prize in physiology or medicine was awarded jointly to Sir John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent it became imperative to write down the review for a book entirely devoted to human embryonic stem cells (hES), those cells that are a urgent need for researchers, those cells that rekindle the ethical debates and finally, last but not least, those cells whose study paved the way to obtain induced pluripotent stem cells by the OSKC’s Yamanaka method (the OSKC acronim refers, for those not familiar with the topic, to the four stemness genes used to transfect somatic fibroblasts: Oct4, Sox2, Klf4 and c-Myc)....

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Redi, C. A. (2013). Human embryonic stem cells handbook. European Journal of Histochemistry, 57(1), br2. https://doi.org/10.4081/ejh.2013.br2