Human skin cells reprogrammed directly into brain cells

Andrew Yoo, PhD, Michelle Richner, Matheus Victor and their colleagues described a way to convert human skin cells directly into medium spiny neurons, a type of brain cell affected by Huntington's disease. Scientists have described a way to convert human skin cells directly into a specific type of brain cell affected by Huntington's disease, an ultimately fatal neurodegenerative disorder.

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