Differentiation-Defective Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Reveal Strengths and Limitations of the Teratoma Assay and In Vitro Pluripotency Assays

The ability to form teratomas in vivo containing multiple somatic cell types is regarded as functional evidence of pluripotency for human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs). Since the Teratoma assay is animal dependent, laborious, and only qualitative, the PluriTest and the hPSC ScoreCard assay have bee...

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Main Authors: Marga J. Bouma, Maarten van Iterson, Bart Janssen, Christine L. Mummery, Daniela C.F. Salvatori, Christian Freund
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-05-01
Series:Stem Cell Reports
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213671117301157