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NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 17, Issue 3, Pages 170-182Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nrm.2015.27
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- Adams Fellowships Program for Doctoral Students
- N.B. is the Herbert Cohn Chair in Cancer Research
- Israel Science Foundation [269/12]
- Rosetrees Trust
- Azrieli Foundation
- Rosetrees Trust [M108-F1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Experimental modelling of human disorders enables the definition of the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying diseases and the development of therapies for treating them. The availability of human pluripotent stem cells (PSCs), which are capable of self-renewal and have the potential to differentiate into virtually any cell type, can now help to overcome the limitations of animal models for certain disorders. The ability to model human diseases using cultured PSCs has revolutionized the ways in which we study monogenic, complex and epigenetic disorders, as well as early- and late-onset diseases. Several strategies are used to generate such disease models using either embryonic stem cells (ES cells) or patient-specific induced PSCs (iPSCs), creating new possibilities for the establishment of models and their use in drug screening.
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