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The ethics of informed consent in Alzheimer disease research.

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COMMENT This work is very interesting because it shows that astrocytes can be successfully differentiated from human iPS cells (ES cells being less relevant, in my point of view). The paper is mostly oriented toward showing that astrocytes are functional. This is

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Specification of transplantable astroglial subtypes from human pluripotent stem cells.

Nat Biotechnol. 2011 Jun;29(6):528-34. PubMed: 21602806

François Berthod

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Stem Cell Recipe for Astrocytes

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