Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: Skin Becomes Brain Cells

Sunday, July 1, 2012 - 11:40 in Health & Medicine

Researchers have created "Huntington's Disease in a dish" by generating stem cells from skin cells obtained from a person with a severe, early-onset form of Huntington's disease  and turned them into neurons that degenerate just like those affected by the fatal inherited disorder. read more

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