Sep 22, 2022
Aged Neurons Generated Directly From Skin More Accurately Model Parkinson’s Disease
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
Summary: Researchers successfully turned skin cells from Parkinson’s patients into dopaminergic neurons by introducing a combination of neural-inducing genes into the skin cells.
Source: international society for stem cell research.
The possibility to make virtually all cell types of the human body from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), which are embryonic-like cells generated from a patient’s skin, in a process called reprogramming, has opened new avenues for disease modeling in the lab.