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Cheaper and less variable expansion

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Substituting growth factors with small molecules in the culture medium for the expansion of human pluripotent stem cells reduces costs and lot-to-lot variability.

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Fig. 1: A cost-effective and reproducible medium for the culture of hPSCs.

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    Maroof M. Adil & David V. Schaffer

  2. Departments of Bioengineering and Molecular and Cell Biology, and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

    David V. Schaffer

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Adil, M.M., Schaffer, D.V. Cheaper and less variable expansion. Nat Biomed Eng 2, 144–145 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-018-0209-y

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