title: How to remake a fibroblast into a neural stem cell.
abstract: In this issue of Cell Stem Cell and in a recent issue of PNAS, Thier et al. (2012), Han et al. (2012), and Lujan et al. (2012) report the derivation of multipotent neural stem/progenitor cells from cultured mouse fibroblasts using distinct reprograming approaches.
authors.affiliation: Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. qiao_zhou@harvard.edu
authors.forename: Qiao
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Pratibha
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tripathi