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Article: Motor neurons of Lou Gehrig's disease created from human skin cells
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- The Hindustan Times
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- August 1, 2008
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Washington, Aug. 1 -- A collaborative study carried out by researchers from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) and Columbia University for Project ALS, has become the first to show that disease-specific stem cells may be derived from an individual patient.
Researchers have demonstrated that pluripotent stem cells derived from a patient with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) can then be differentiated into motor neurons--the brain cells which are destroyed by ALS.
In this study, led by Kevin Eggan, of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, skin cells taken from a patient with a familial form of ALS were induced to become ...