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Derivation of Adult Human Fibroblasts and their Direct Conversion into Expandable Neural Progenitor Cells
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Author Correction: Conversion of human fibroblasts to angioblast-like progenitor cells
Leo Kurian1, Ignacio Sancho-Martinez1, Emmanuel Nivet1
1Gene Expression Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, USA.
Nature Methods
|February 9, 2020
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