The chemical approach: To overcome the problems involved in using viral vectors and transgenes to generate induced pluripotent stem cells, Ichida et al., have discovered a small molecule, RepSox, that successfully replaces the transcription factor Sox2 in reprogramming somatic cells into iPSCs by inhibiting transforming growth factor-β signaling.
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