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Raising the standards of stem cell line quality

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Yaffe and colleagues discuss the issues surrounding the authentication and quality of induced pluripotent stem cells.

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Yaffe, M., Noggle, S. & Solomon, S. Raising the standards of stem cell line quality. Nat Cell Biol 18, 236–237 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncb3313

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