Common ground: stem cell approaches find shared pathways underlying ALS.

Cell Stem Cell

Biomedical Neuroscience Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Independencia 1027, Chile; Neurounion Biomedical Foundation, Santiago, Chile; Program of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Center for Molecular Studies of the Cell, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Chile, Independencia 1027, Santiago, Chile. Electronic address:

Published: June 2014

The development of curative therapies for genetically complex diseases such as ALS has been delayed by the lack of relevant disease models. Recent advances using induced-pluripotent-stem-cell-derived motoneurons from patients harboring distinct ALS mutations have recapitulated essential disease features and have identified some common pathways driving disease pathogenesis.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.stem.2014.05.001DOI Listing

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