title: Expanding Reprogramming to Cardiovascular Progenitors.
abstract: Methods to generate expandable cardiac progenitor populations are desirable for developing cellular therapies for heart failure and for studying cardiac specification. Now in Cell Stem Cell, Lalit et al. (2016) and Zhang et al. (2016) report two different strategies for reprogramming adult mouse fibroblasts into highly expandable cardiovascular progenitor cells.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cell Growth and Differentiation, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University, 53 Shogoin Kawahara-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan. Electronic address: juny@cira.kyoto-u.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Jun K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Yamashita