Scientists Able To Create Nerve Disease In Lab For Research
December 22, 2008
Washington (dbTechno) - Scientists have come out and announced that they have managed to create a potentially-fatal nerve disease in the lab in order to do research on its development.
The nerve disease is known as SMA or spinal muscular atrophy, and can be devastating for people.
It is a genetic disorder that can greatly impact muscle functions, killing motor neurons.
Scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and University if Missouri-Columbia have managed to use skin cells from a child with the disease in order to re-create it in a lab.
By using this new human model, the hope is that they will be able to watch the disease develop, and figure out new ways to possibly treat it.
They carried out this re-creation of the disease using technology known as induced pluripotent stem cells of iPS cells.
They were able to grow the disease by turning the cells into stem cells.
These new iPS cells are going to be able to grow and will be studied closely to try and learn more on the disease.
The new research has been reported on in the journal Nature.
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Why would anyone want to creat a fatal disease in a lab and experiment on it? This is SICK! Why create a disease? CREATE CURES!
Resident Evil anyone? T-virus…. Its gonna happen…
I have been reading about iPs cells, and am facinated by the prospects of a cure or treatment in this medical condition as well as others.Those that critize are afraid and ignorant of the potentials with stem cell research.
I sorta want to be able to make a virus to give people powers