Engineers turn skin cells directly into neurons for cell therapy

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Mar 13, 2025, 11:00 am466 ptsHot
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 differentiated into a neuron. Researchers at MIT have now devised a simplified process that bypasses the stem cell stage,…

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