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. 2012 Apr 11;3(4):241–245. doi: 10.1007/s13238-012-2804-0

Non-viral iPSCs: a safe way for therapy?

Weiqi Zhang 1, Di Guan 1, Jing Qu 1,✉, Weizhou Zhang 2,✉, Guang-Hui Liu 1,✉
PMCID: PMC4875477  PMID: 22528750

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Footnotes

These authors contributed equally to the work.

Contributor Information

Jing Qu, Email: jqu@salk.edu.

Weizhou Zhang, Email: w4zhang@ucsd.edu.

Guang-Hui Liu, Email: ghliu@ibp.ac.cn.

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