About the Authors

Bruno Di Stefano

Contributed equally to this work with: Bruno Di Stefano, Christa Buecker

Affiliations Stem Cells and Neurogenesis Unit, Division of Neuroscience, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy

Christa Buecker

Contributed equally to this work with: Bruno Di Stefano, Christa Buecker

Affiliations Center for Regenerative Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Federica Ungaro

Affiliation Stem Cells and Neurogenesis Unit, Division of Neuroscience, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Alessandro Prigione

Affiliation Molecular Embryology and Aging Group, Department of Vertebrate Genomics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Hsu-Hsin Chen

Affiliations Center for Regenerative Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Maaike Welling

Affiliations Center for Regenerative Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Maureen Eijpe

Affiliation Department of Cell Biology, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Gustavo Mostoslavsky

Affiliation Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Paul Tesar

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

James Adjaye

Affiliation Molecular Embryology and Aging Group, Department of Vertebrate Genomics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany

Niels Geijsen

ngeijsen@mgh.harvard.edu (NG); broccoli.vania@hsr.it (VB)

Affiliations Center for Regenerative Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Department of Clinical Sciences of Companion Animals, Utrecht University Veterinary School, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Vania Broccoli

ngeijsen@mgh.harvard.edu (NG); broccoli.vania@hsr.it (VB)

Affiliation Stem Cells and Neurogenesis Unit, Division of Neuroscience, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BDS CB NG VB. Performed the experiments: BDS CB FU AP HHC MW ME. Analyzed the data: BDS CB NG VB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GM PT JA. Wrote the paper: BDS NG VB.