Another step forward in ALS and stem cell research

Thursday, December 4, 2008 - 17:14 in Health & Medicine

A Harvard Stem Cell Institute research team has succeeded in deriving spinal motor neurons from human embryonic stem cells, and has then used them to replicate the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) disease process in a laboratory dish.read more

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