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Unnatural selection of cultured human ES cells?

Human embryonic stem (ES) cells maintained in culture can develop chromosomal abnormalities.

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Pera, M. Unnatural selection of cultured human ES cells?. Nat Biotechnol 22, 42–43 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0104-42

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