Article: Harvard-Columbia team creates neurons from ALS patient's skin cells.

Article: Motor neurons of Lou Gehrig's disease created from ...
The Hindustan Times;  August 1, 2008 ;     651 words ... ... differentiated into motor neurons--the brain cells ... Stem Cell Institute, skin cells taken from a patient ... pluripotent cells into motor neurons and glia (support ... ability to derive ALS motor neurons through a simple skin ...

Article: Researchers produce motor neurons from embryonic ...
Stem Cell Week;  August 12, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... cells to differentiate into functioning motor neurons. The achievement was made possible ... signals that trigger differentiation of motor neurons, which are responsible for controlling ... approach might be used to grow human motor neurons from stem cells. Such neurons could ...

Article: Researchers Produce Motor Neurons From Embryonic ...
Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  July 18, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... cells to differentiate into functioning motor neurons. The achievement was made possible ... signals that trigger differentiation of motor neurons, which are responsible for controlling ... approach might be used to grow human motor neurons from stem cells. Such neurons could ...

Article: UW SCIENTISTS GROW HUMAN MOTOR NEURONS.(FRONT)
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);  January 31, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Madison researchers have grown human motor neurons in the lab for the first time using ... future, these cells might replace dead motor neurons -- which carry messages from the brain ... questions of how to counteract the death of motor neurons," Buckley said. Su-Chun Zhang ...

Article: Novel death pathway may explain why motor neurons ...
Pain & Central Nervous System Week;  October 21, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... understand the selective vulnerability of motor neurons in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ... described a novel pathway specific to motor neurons that leads to cell death. This study ... sheds new light on cell death in motor neurons and provides potential targets for ...

Article: The ALS Association Reports That Scientists Describe a Novel ...
PR Newswire;  September 12, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... understand the selective vulnerability of motor neurons in ALS and describe a novel pathway specific to motor neurons that leads to cell death. This study ... sheds new light on cell death in motor neurons and provides potential targets for ...

Article: SCIENTISTS MAKE ACTIVE MOTOR NEURONS FROM INDUCED ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 26, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... differentiated into electrically active motor neurons, a discovery that may aid in studying ... neurological disorders. Additionally, the motor neurons derived from the iPS cells appeared ... cells and differentiated them into motor neurons. Neurons are the responsive cells ...