{"id":208659,"date":"2025-03-14T04:02:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T09:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/mit-engineers-turn-skin-cells-directly-into-neurons-for-cell-therapy"},"modified":"2025-03-14T04:02:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T09:02:37","slug":"mit-engineers-turn-skin-cells-directly-into-neurons-for-cell-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/mit-engineers-turn-skin-cells-directly-into-neurons-for-cell-therapy","title":{"rendered":"MIT engineers turn skin cells directly into neurons for cell therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-engineers-turn-skin-cells-directly-into-neurons-for-cell-therapy3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Converting one type of cell to another \u2014 for example, a skin cell to a neuron \u2014 can be done through a process that requires the skin cell to be induced into a \u201cpluripotent\u201d stem cell, then differentiated into a neuron. Researchers at MIT have now devised a simplified process that bypasses the stem cell stage, converting a skin cell directly into a neuron.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>MIT researchers devised a process to convert a skin cell directly into a neuron, eliminating the need to generate induced pluripotent stem cells. Such neurons could be used to treat spinal cord injuries or diseases such as ALS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Converting one type of cell to another \u2014 for example, a skin cell to a neuron \u2014 can be done through a process that requires the skin cell to be induced into a \u201cpluripotent\u201d stem cell, then differentiated into a neuron. Researchers at MIT have now devised a simplified process that bypasses the stem cell [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}