The authors are in the Department of Genetics and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Ave., Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. cepko@genetics.med.harvard.edu
Human neural stem cells could be used to treat many diseases, but a major problem with this approach is that these cells give rise to few neurons in the brain. Now a new priming method increases production of neurons after implantation, including the elusive cholinergic neurons.
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