A disease-specific iPS cell resource for studying rare and intractable diseases

• Main Authors: Megumu K. Saito (Author), Mitsujiro Osawa (Author), Nao Tsuchida (Author), Kotaro Shiraishi (Author), Akira Niwa (Author), Knut Woltjen (Author), Isao Asaka (Author), Katsuhisa Ogata (Author), Suminobu Ito (Author), Shuzo Kobayashi (Author), Shinya Yamanaka (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Disease-specific induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are useful tools for pathological analysis and diagnosis of rare diseases. Given the limited available resources, banking such disease-derived iPSCs and promoting their widespread use would be a promising approach for untang...