Efficient process using microRNA converts human skin cells into neurons
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 - 12:00
in Biology & Nature
The addition of two particular gene snippets to a skin cell's usual genetic material is enough to turn that cell into a fully functional neuron, report researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine. The finding, to be published online July 13 in Nature, is one of just a few recent reports of ways to create human neurons in a lab dish.