What Feature of IPS Cells Removes All the Ethical Reservations

question 35

Essay

What feature of iPS cells removes all the ethical reservations that accompany work with ES cells and makes it much easier to generate iPS cells in the lab? What difficulties must be overcome before iPS cells can be used as a source of cells for human therapy? How might the problem of immune rejection of iPS cell replacements eventually be avoided?

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