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Skin Cells as Source of Neurons

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Columbia University (US) scientists generate functional neurons directly from human skin cells Columbia University (New York, USA) researchers have successfully generated functional neurons directly from human skin cells, including those taken from patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Asa Abeliovich and colleagues started with known transcriptional regulators and, through a process of trial and error, identified a …

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