Researchers treat Lou Gehrig’s (ALS) in a "disease in a dish" model

After using an innovative stem cell technique to create neurons in a lab dish from skin scrapings of patients who have the disorder, the researchers inserted molecules made of small stretches of genetic material, blocking the damaging effects of a defective gene and, in the process, providing…

Source:Researchers treat Lou Gehrig’s (ALS) in a “disease in a dish” model