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How to quickly generate a large quantity of personalized nerve cells

14-Jun-2013

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Embryonic stem cells (or ESCs) and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are prized because they can replicate themselves indefinitely in a dish or differentiate into every cell type in the body.

This makes them potentially valuable tools for regenerative medicine.

The study was published in the Neuron journal.

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Neuron

Scientific Journal providing information about neuroscience.

Stanford University

Private research university, one of the world's leading research and teaching institutions

Thomas Sudhof

Professor in the School of Medicine in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, and by courtesy in Neurology, and in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.

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