Human pluripotent stem cells can be stabilized in a state resembling the inner cell mass of the blastocyst.
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Mascetti, V., Pedersen, R. Naiveté of the human pluripotent stem cell. Nat Biotechnol 32, 68–70 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2789
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