{"id":259654,"date":"2010-02-01T10:54:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T15:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21179"},"modified":"2010-02-01T10:54:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T15:54:07","slug":"skin-cells-turned-directly-into-neurons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/259654","title":{"rendered":"Skin Cells Turned Directly Into Neurons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Clive Cookson for the  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/41aaee2e-0bab-11df-9f03-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1\">Financial Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Stem cell scientists at Stanford University in California announced &#8220;a huge step forward&#8221; last night, with the publication of research that turned skin into nerve cells without any intermediate step.<\/p>\n<p>The production of neurons [nerve cells] directly from other adult cells, without making stem cells en route, could transform &#8220;regenerative medicine&#8221; &#8211; providing a plentiful supply of neurons for treating people with degenerative brain diseases such as Parkinson&#8217;s or those with spinal injuries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We actively and directly induced one cell type to become a completely different cell type,&#8221; said Marius Wernig of Stanford&#8217;s Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. &#8220;These are fully functional neurons. They can do all the principal things that neurons in the brain do.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[continues at the  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/41aaee2e-0bab-11df-9f03-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1\">Financial Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Clive Cookson for the Financial Times: Stem cell scientists at Stanford University in California announced &#8220;a huge step forward&#8221; last night, with the publication of research that turned skin into nerve cells without any intermediate step. The production of neurons [nerve cells] directly from other adult cells, without making stem cells en route, could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}