Turning skin cells directly into cells that insulate neurons

Skin cell transformed into an oligodendrocyte precursor cell , which myelinates the axon of a nerve cell Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have succeeded in transforming skin cells directly into oligodendrocyte precursor cells , the cells that myelinate nerve cells and would work successfully when transplanted into the ... (more)

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