Acknowledgement
The authors thank Misaki Ouchida (Center for iPS Cell Research and Application) and Bokyung Moon (THERABEST, Co., Ltd.) for one of the figure illustrations and the iPS cell microscopy image, respectively. This work was supported by the Core Center for iPS Cell Research (20bm0104001h0008), Research Center Network for Realization of Regenerative Medicine from AMED (Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development) and a 2020 Gibon Yeongu Program from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology (2020R1F1A106727812 to S.I.K.).
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