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Stem cells

Close encounters with full potential

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Conferring stem-cell potential on mature cells is not easy. A decisive impediment to this process has now been identified, and its elimination allows almost all mature cells to efficiently adopt a stem-cell identity. See Article p.65

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Figure 1: The battle for pluripotency.

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  1. *This article and the paper under discussion2 were published online on 18 September 2013.

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  1. Kyle M. Loh is in the Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA.,

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  2. Bing Lim is in the Stem Cell and Developmental Biology Group, Genome Institute of Singapore, 138672 Singapore, and at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.,

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