title: A panel of glycan cell surface markers define pluripotency state and promote safer cell-based therapies.
abstract: In a recent study in Nature Biotechnology, Tang et al. (2011) describe a new marker of pluripotency, stage-specific embryonic antigen-5 (SSEA-5), and show that this oligosaccharide, together with two other surface antigens, can be used to remove all tumor-initiating cells from prospective cell transplants.
authors: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Rambam Health Care Campus, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. itskovitz@rambam.health.gov.il
authors: Joseph
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authors: Itskovitz-Eldor