Reduced Rejection Risk Noted by Coaxing IPS Cells to Become More Specialized Prior to Transplantation

Many scientists fear that the immune system may reject transplanted stem cells before they could provide any long term benefit. Previous research in mice has suggested that even stem cells produced from the subject's own tissue, called iPS cells, can trigger an immune attack. Now researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found that coaxing iPS cells in the laboratory to become more-specialized progeny cells (a cellular process called differentiation) ...

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