Tumorigenicity as a clinical hurdle for pluripotent stem cell therapies.

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Published in Nat Med on August 06, 2013

Authors

Andrew S Lee1,2,3, Chad Tang1,4, Mahendra S Rao5, Irving L Weissman1, Joseph C Wu1,2,3

Author Affiliations

1: Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
2: Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
3: Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
4: Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
5: National Center for Regenerative Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.

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