Patient-derived Induced Stem Cells Retain Disease Traits
Monday, January 5, 2009 - 12:28
in Biology & Nature
When neurons started dying in Clive Svendsen's lab dishes, he couldn't have been more pleased. The dying cells -- the same type lost in patients with the devastating neurological disease spinal muscular atrophy -- confirmed that the stem cell biologist had recreated the hallmarks of a genetic disorder in the lab, using stem cells derived from a patient.
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