Alzheimer's neurons induced from pluripotent stem cells
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - 13:00
in Health & Medicine
Led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, scientists have, for the first time, created stem cell-derived, in vitro models of sporadic and hereditary Alzheimer's disease (AD), using induced pluripotent stem cells from patients with the much-dreaded neurodegenerative disorder.