Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: A New Model for Schizophrenia?

Lack of patient tissue and relevant disease models have constrained progress toward discovering the causes of schizophrenia. Recently in Nature, Brennand et al. (2011) reprogram schizophrenia patient fibroblasts to derive four iPSC lines, perform subsequent neural differentiation, and provide early insights into a novel approach that may address these issues.

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Thank you for posting.

I am ready to serve as a guinea pig for schizophrenia research.

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Isnt it a old story… are they still countinuing it… any information about it on 2018…!!!

@GentleSoul - in order to avoid copyright violations, I added the link to the article and removed all but the first paragraph.

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