Fresh or frozen human blood samples can be directly transformed into patient-specific neurons to study disorders such as schizophrenia and autism, Stanford researchers find. Human immune cel... Read more
Researchers have worked out how to reprogram cells from human skin into functioning nerve cells. By transforming cells from human skin into working nerve cells, researchers may have come up... Read more
Cells taken from the tips of mouse tails and genetically reprogrammed to mimic mature liver cells can repair damaged livers. The ultimate goal of such studies is to use the same technique to... Read more