Penn State scientists have started their own crowd-funding campaign to bring brain-repair research from the lab into clinical trials.
The research team recently discovered a way to transform a support brain cell — called a glial cell — into healthy, functioning neural cells to replace nerves damaged by Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease, brain or spinal-cord traumas, or stroke.
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Ref: In Vivo Direct Reprogramming of Reactive Glial Cells into Functional Neurons after Brain Injury and in an Alzheimer’s Disease Model. Cell Stem Cell (2014) | DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2013.12.001
