Modeling Rett syndrome with stem cells

Ryan M Walsh; Konrad Hochedlinger

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2010.10.037

Modeling Rett syndrome with stem cells

Cell. 2010 Nov 12;143(4):499-500. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2010.10.037.

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Ryan M Walsh¹, Konrad Hochedlinger

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¹ Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Regenerative Medicine and Cancer Center, Boston, MA 02114, USA.

Abstract

The discovery that somatic cells can be reprogrammed into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) raised the exciting possibility of modeling diseases with patient-specific cells. Marchetto et al. (2010) now use iPSC technology to generate, characterize, and treat an in vitro model for the autism spectrum disorder Rett syndrome.

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