title: An uphill battle toward pluripotency.
abstract: The discovery that a cocktail of transcription factors can reprogram somatic cells into induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells keeps revealing new secrets of cell fate specification. A new study with hematopoietic cells shows that progenitor cells are far more susceptible than differentiated cells to reprogramming.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Graf
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D019070:Cell Lineage; D065150:Cellular Reprogramming; D005822:Genetic Vectors; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology* / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D016086:Lentivirus / Q000235:genetics; D051379:Mice; D039904:Pluripotent Stem Cells / Q000502:physiology*; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics; D014161:Transduction, Genetic; D019076:Transgenes
chemical_list: D014157:Transcription Factors