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I think you're referring to a different type of stem cells, multipotent stem cells like mesenchymal cells or hematopoietic cells. iPSCs aren't used in a process like that at this time

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Maybe definitions have changed since this article was written in 2014?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4172675/

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) provide a novel source for generating adipocytes,

Mscs are just a type of multipotent stem cell, and iPSCs can be differentiated into them. For any of the msc therapies today though you won't use iPSCs, you'll just get mscs directly from adipose tissue

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