Novel Toolkit Reprograms Skin Cells into Different Kinds of Neurons

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute day they have put together what they call a "neuronal cookbook" for turning skin cells into different types of neurons. They believe their work (“ Diverse reprogramming codes for neuronal identity ”), published in Nature, opens the door to studying common brain conditions such as autism, schizophrenia, addiction and Alzheimer's disease under reproducible conditions in a dish.“The transcriptional programs that establish neur