From Skin Cells to Motor Neurons
HARVARD GAZETTE Harvard researchers have succeeded in reprogramming adult mouse skin cells directly into the type of motor neurons damaged in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), best known as Lou Gehrig's disease, and spinal muscular atropy (SMA). These
Autism: The Musical
AUTISM: THE MUSICAL counters todays bleak statistics with one womans optimistic pledge to lead a group of autistic children in defying diagnosed expectations by writing, rehearsing and performing their own full-length musical.
Brain’s Synaptic Pruning Continues Into Your 20s
Pasko Rakic at Yale University and colleagues at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, and the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, have now found that the brains of adults in their 20s are still subject to synaptic pruning.
Celiac Disease
Gluten Intolerance and Celiac Disease Gluten Intolerance and Celiac Disease can have similar symptoms. However, gluten intolerance does not classify as an auto-immune disease. A study by the University of Maryland identifies the pathogenic differences
A Mother’s Determination And Next Generation Sequencing
When Noah and Alexis Beery were diagnosed with cerebral palsy at age 2, their parents thought they at last had an answer to the problems that had plagued their twin infants from birth. However, that proved only