Toward an alternative to stem cells for treating chronic brain diseases
alzheimer's | alzheimer's disease | biotechnology | brain | neurons | neuroscience | pharmaceutical | stem cells | technology
With ethical issues concerning use of discarded embryos and technical problems hindering development of stem cell therapies, scientists in Korea are reporting the first successful use of a drug-like molecule to transform human muscle cells into nerve cells. Their report, scheduled for the August 8 issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, a weekly [...]
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