Human embryonic stem cells and reprogrammed cells virtually identical

Thursday, August 5, 2010 - 11:21 in Biology & Nature

Human embryonic stem (ES) cells and adult cells reprogrammed to an embryonic stem cell-like state -so-called induced pluripotent stem or iPS cells -exhibit very few differences in their gene expression signatures and are nearly indistinguishable in their chromatin state, according to Whitehead Institute researchers.

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