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Article: U.S. scientists creat neurons from skin cells of elderly ALS patients
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- August 2, 2008
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U.S. scientists creat neurons from skin cells of elderly ALS
patients
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- A team of U.S. scientists have for
the first time used a new technique to transform an ALS (amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis) patient's skin cells into motor neurons, a
process that may be used in the future to create tailor-made cells
to treat the debilitating disease.
The research, conducted by scientists from Harvard University and
Columbia University, was published in the Aug. 1st issue of the
journal Science.
This is the first time that skin cells from a chronically-ill
patient have been reprogrammed into a stem cell-like state, and then
coaxed into the specific cell types that would be ...