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Fig. 1 | Stem Cell Research & Therapy

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From: Two sides of the same coin? Unraveling subtle differences between human embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells by Raman spectroscopy

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Raman imaging of typical human ESCs and iPSCs. Color-reconstituted Raman images of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs, upper left panel) and human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) (upper right panel). White scale bar = 5 μm. Small insets show corresponding bright-field images recorded after Raman scanning. Raman peak at 785 cm–1 (DNA/RNA bases) mapped in red, 1670 cm–1 (proteins) in blue, 2850 cm–1 (lipids) in green, and a combination of 748 and 1585 cm–1 (cytochrome C) in magenta. hiPSCs exhibit a much higher level of DNA/RNA bases in well-defined regions of the cell. Curves in the lower panel are average spectra of hESCs (top curve) and hiPSCs (bottom curve), where the peaks used for the color-reconstituted images are indicated with the corresponding color

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