“…We reprogrammed fibroblasts from five rhesus macaques, one baboon, and two humans to demonstrate the broad applicability of our reprogramming method. To our knowledge, most of the relatively few NHP-iPSC lines generated until now (including macaque, baboon, gorilla, chimpanzee, bonobo, and common marmoset) were typically reprogrammed using methods involving genomic integration of the reprogramming vectors [ 23 , 29 , 30 , 33 , 34 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58 , 59 ]; or genomic integration followed by the excision of the lentiviral vector leaving a genetic tag in the host genome [ 26 , 60 ]. So far, to our knowledge, only very few studies using an approach based on non-integrating vectors were reported recently [ 16 , 21 , 24 , 27 ].…”