Breakthrough in Skin-Brain Cell Conversion

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Directly converting skin cells to brain cells yields 1,000% success

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MIT scientists have developed a way to convert skin cells directly into brain cells without needing to go through the intermediate step of converting them to stem cells first .

In the original study less than 0.1% of cells made it all the way through, but that’s been drastically improved in the almost 20 years since.

The resulting motor neurons were found to produce electrical activity and calcium signaling, indicating they were functional.

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