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As issued patents on induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells stack up, the specter of a patent thicket looms. Michael Eisenstein investigates.

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  • 09 July 2010

    In the version of the article originally published, it was stated that the Cohen-Boyer patents generated hundreds of billions of dollars in licensing revenue. It should have read hundreds of millions of dollars. The error has been corrected in the HMTL and PDF versions of the article.

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Eisenstein, M. Up for grabs. Nat Biotechnol 28, 544–546 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0610-544

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