Article: UW SCIENTISTS GROW HUMAN MOTOR NEURONS.(FRONT)

Byline: Beth Williams Wisconsin State Journal

UW-Madison researchers have grown human motor neurons in the lab for the first time using embryonic stem cells.

The breakthrough could let researchers more easily and quickly test drugs to treat neurological diseases. And researchers hope that in the future, these cells might replace dead motor neurons -- which carry messages from the brain directing the body to move -- in patients with spinal cord injuries or neurological diseases.

"I don't think it's possible to overstate how important it is," said Michael Buckley, executive director of the Wisconsin chapter of the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis ...

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