Cellular reprograming is a biological event in which a differentiated metazoan cell is induced to revert to a state functionally resembling that of cells at earlier developmental stages1,2. Full reprograming of somatic cells results in the acquisition of the ability to give rise to an entire organism, or totipotency; this can be achieved by somatic cell nuclear transfer3. Pluripotency in contrast
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