High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Induced stem cells are stem cells artificially derived from some other (somatic, reproductive, pluripotent etc.) cell types by epigenetic reprogramming. In accordance to the developmental potentiality and the degree of cell dedifferentiation caused by induced reprogramming they are distinguished and subdivided as: induced totipotent, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSc) and obtained by so-called direct reprogramming or directed forced differentiation induced progenitor (multipotent or unipotent) stem cells, also called induced somatic stem cells. Currently, there are three ways to reprogram somatic cells into stem cells These are: