What makes humans intelligent? These unique neurons might hold the key
Concepts encoded by concept neurons can be an animal, an article of clothing, a place, or a person. The concept can be evoked ...
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Directly converting skin cells to brain cells yields 1,000% success
In a potentially major breakthrough for regenerative medicine, scientists at MIT have developed a way to convert skin cells ...
Engineers turn skin cells directly into neurons for cell therapy
Converting one type of cell to another—for example, a skin cell to a neuron—can be done through a process that requires the ...
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Turning skin cells into neurons for cell therapy
About 20 years ago, scientists discovered that skin cells could be converted into pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), which can ...
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Skin cells can now be directly converted into neurons
Scientists have developed a breakthrough technique to directly convert skin cells into neurons, bypassing the need for stem ...
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Researchers Bypass Stem Cells and Convert Skin Cells Directly Into Neurons
Converting one type of cell to another — for example, a skin cell to a neuron — can be done through a process that requires the skin cell to be induced into a “pluripotent” stem cell, then ...