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Stem cell biologists sure play a mean pinball

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Mouse fibroblasts are reprogrammed to functional neurons by expression of a few transcription factors.

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Figure 1: Pinball model of development and reprogramming.

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  1. Dhruv Sareen and Clive N. Svendsen are at the Regenerative Medicine Institute at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.,

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Sareen, D., Svendsen, C. Stem cell biologists sure play a mean pinball. Nat Biotechnol 28, 333–335 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0410-333

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