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Tailor-made diseased neurons

How can we investigate a disease affecting neurons, which cannot be isolated from patients for analysis? As the study of one neurological disorder shows, a first step might be to make patient-specific neurons.

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Sendtner, M. Tailor-made diseased neurons. Nature 457, 269–270 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/457269a

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