On human development: lessons from stem cell systems

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  • 1Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH16 4UU, UK a.medvinsky@ed.ac.uk.

Development (Cambridge, England)
|December 18, 2014
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Keywords:
Directed differentiationEmbryogenesisEmbryonic stem cellsHuman developmentPluripotent stem cells

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