iPSCs to the rescue in Alzheimer's research.

Choi, Se Hoon; Tanzi, Rudolph E · Cell Stem Cell · 2012

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

A crucial limitation to our understanding of Alzheimer's disease has been the inability to test hypotheses on live, patient-specific neurons. A recent study in Nature by Israel et al. (2012) reports that iPSC-derived neurons from AD patients recapitulate multiple aspects of disease pathology.