Researchers Accidentally Reprogram Mature Brain Cells

Sometimes, the best discoveries are the ones you make by accident. Molecular biologists at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center can attest to that: The team announced in a new paper in the journal Stem Cell Reports that they’d unintentionally reprogrammed one type of mature neuron into another — all without first reverting it to a stem-cell stage.As you might’ve guessed, yes, when scientists want to change a brain cell that’s already settled into