How to remake a fibroblast into a neural stem cell

Qiao Zhou; Pratibha Tripathi

doi:10.1016/j.stem.2012.03.005

How to remake a fibroblast into a neural stem cell

Cell Stem Cell. 2012 Apr 6;10(4):347-8. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2012.03.005.

Authors

Qiao Zhou¹, Pratibha Tripathi

Affiliation

¹ Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. qiao_zhou@harvard.edu

PMID: 22482497
DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2012.03.005

Abstract

In this issue of Cell Stem Cell and in a recent issue of PNAS, Thier et al. (2012), Han et al. (2012), and Lujan et al. (2012) report the derivation of multipotent neural stem/progenitor cells from cultured mouse fibroblasts using distinct reprograming approaches.

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