Case Western Reserve team finds way to convert skin cells to brain cells destroyed by cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis
The Plain Dealer: Paul Tesar, assistant professor of genetics and genome sciences, led a team that developed a technique to convert skin cells to the types of brain cells that are found damaged in patients with cerebral palsy and multiple sclerosis. "It's a cellular alchemy, the ability to control and direct a cell to become something else," he said.
