Are there morally acceptable alternatives to blastocyst derived ESC?

Journal of Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1054-1061

  Rao, Mahendra S ^a,b,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INVITROGEN CORPORATION   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

Characterization; hESC; Karyotype; Methylation; Mitochondrial sequencing

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADULT STEM CELL; BLASTOCYST; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ETHICS; HUMAN; INNER CELL MASS; KARYOTYPE; MITOCHONDRION; MORALITY; NONHUMAN; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STEM CELL;

AGING; ANIMALS; BIOETHICS; BLASTOCYST; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMANS; STEM CELLS;

EID: 33746439803     PISSN: 07302312     EISSN: 10974644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcb.20723     Document Type: Review

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