Lineage tracing: The gold standard to claim direct reprogramming in vivo

Affiliations

¹ Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute, Los Angeles, CA 90049, USA. Electronic address: clive.svendsen@cshs.org.
² David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.

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Clive N Svendsen et al. Mol Ther. 2022.

. 2022 Mar 2;30(3):988-989.

doi: 10.1016/j.ymthe.2022.01.029. Epub 2022 Feb 4.

¹ Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute, Los Angeles, CA 90049, USA. Electronic address: clive.svendsen@cshs.org.
² David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.

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