The discovery that made it possible happened by accident, said Farshid Guilak, who
directs regenerative medicine research for St. Louis Shriner's Hospital and Washington University.
Not exact matches
The team at the University's Medical
Research Council Centre for
Regenerative Medicine were surprised to find the molecules can also boost
direct conversions from one type of mature cell to another — including transforming skin cells into brain cells.
Pleasure, who is
research director at Shriner's Hospital for Children Northern California and also
directs the Institute for Pediatric
Regenerative Medicine, noted that considerable
research interest has arisen about the use of minocycline for diseases of the central nervous system because of the increasing evidence about its neuroprotective effects.