“…Within a year, human iPS cell lines were created using the same technology (Takahashi et al, 2007). Now iPS cells have been successfully produced from many other species (Ezashi et al, 2009, Honda et al, 2010, Liu et al, 2008, Sumer et al, 2010. Further improvements in ES and iPS cell techniques will enable cell-based therapies to be developed (Grigoriadis et al, 2010, Zou et al, 2011.…”