Defined reprogramming: a vehicle for changing the differentiated state.

Differentiation

Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Stowers Medical Institute and Harvard Medical Institute, Harvard University, 7 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

Published: September 2007

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