Brains in metamorphosis: reprogramming cell identity within the central nervous system.

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Published in Curr Opin Neurobiol on May 04, 2014

Authors

Paola Arlotta1, Benedikt Berninger2

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, 7 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, USA. Electronic address: paola_arlotta@harvard.edu.
2: Research group "Adult Neurogenesis and Cellular Reprogramming", Institute of Physiological Chemistry, and Focus Program Translational Neuroscience, University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Hanns-Dieter-Hüsch-Weg 19, Mainz, Germany; Department of Physiological Genomics, Institute of Physiology, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Schillerstrasse 46, D-80336 Munich, Germany. Electronic address: berningb@uni-mainz.de.

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