title: Is transdifferentiation in trouble?
abstract: Spectacular examples of transdifferentiation--such as brain cells turning to blood and blood to brain--have given way to sneaking suspicions about artifacts in culture, fusion, and clonality. Could cell fates be relatively fixed after all?
authors.affiliation: wellsw@rockfeller.edu
authors.forename: William A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Wells
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000502:physiology*; D019976:Cloning, Organism; D013234:Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology*