By Christina Elston – Cedars Sinai –
Cedars-Sinai’s Lifelike Laboratory Model Is a New Way for Investigators to Study Motor Neurons That Die in Patients With the Neurodegenerative Illness
Using stem cells from patients with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), Cedars-Sinai has created a lifelike model of the mysterious and fatal disease that could help identify a cause of the illness as well as effective treatments.
In a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Cell Stem Cell, investigators detail how they created “ALS on a chip” and the clues the specialized laboratory chip has already produced about nongenetic causes of the disease,
