A new technique developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology helps convert skin cells into neurons without needing ...

A stem cell treatment helped improve the motor function of two out of four patients with a spinal cord injury in the first ...

Scientists have developed a breakthrough technique to directly convert skin cells into neurons, bypassing the need for stem ...

Such neurons could be used to treat spinal cord injuries or diseases such as ... we're going directly from a somatic cell to a motor neuron." Galloway's research group and others have demonstrated ...

Working with mouse cells, the researchers developed a highly efficient conversion method that can produce more than 10 ...

About 20 years ago, scientists discovered that skin cells could be converted into pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), which can ...

A cholesterol receptor protein called LDLR appears to be a key driver of neurotoxicity in sporadic ALS, per new research ...

A team of Japanese researchers reports that two out of four patients who received stem cell transplants showed improvements in motor function, marking a potential breakthrough in the treatment of ...

SineuGene Therapeutics Co., Ltd. ("SineuGene"), a clinical-stage biotech company pioneering innovative therapies for neurological disorders, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...

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 ...

Converting one type of cell to another—for example, a skin cell to a neuron ... quantities of motor neurons, which could potentially be used to treat patients with spinal cord injuries or ...