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Vive la difference!

Dr Brian Dickie1 Comment

Reading Time: 3 minutes It could be easy to assume that one motor neurone is pretty much like another, but a series of presentations on Thursday clearly showed that we need to be a little more sophisticated in our thinking. Dr Hynek Wichterle (Columbia University) discussed how in the developing embryo, there are distinct regional subtypes of motor neurones…

Stem cell conference part two: How are motor neurones created from stem cells?

Dr Brian Dickie

Reading Time: 2 minutes Creating motor neurones for research is a lengthy and expensive process, so Prof Kevin Eggan from Harvard University  Massachusetts, asked whether we can predict at an early stage which stem cell lines will be the most useful in generating the best quantities of motor neurones, saving time, effort and money. He has been developing a ‘scorecard’…