title: Creating a blood line from human skin.
abstract: A recent study has generated blood cell progenitors with therapeutic potential by direct lineage conversion of human fibroblasts, thus circumventing reprogramming to pluripotent stem cells.
authors.affiliation: Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, Université Aix-Marseille, Campus de Luminy, Case 906, 13288 Marseille Cedex 09, France. sieweke@ciml.univ-mrs.fr
authors.forename: Michael H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Sieweke
mesh_terms: D001773:Blood Cells / Q000166:cytology*; D018929:Cell Culture Techniques / Q000379:methods; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D002460:Cell Line; D019070:Cell Lineage; D005347:Fibroblasts / Q000166:cytology; D006801:Humans; D057026:Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells / Q000166:cytology* / Q000378:metabolism*; D012867:Skin / Q000166:cytology*