Human Skin Cells Turned into Nerve Cells

By Ewen Callaway Nature magazine By transforming cells from human skin into working nerve cells, researchers may have come up with a model for nervous-system diseases and perhaps even regenerative therapies based on cell transplants. The achievement, reported online today in Nature , is the latest in a fast-moving field called transdifferentiation, in which cells are forced to adopt new identities.

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Human Skin Cells Turned into Nerve Cells