Researchers at the EMC, with collaborators at the Universities of Cambridge and Cardiff, have developed a new method to generate human motor neurones from stem cells. The new process enables the generation of a variety of human motor neurons, which differ in their make-up and properties depending on their location in the spinal cord. The ability to create a range of different motor neurons will enable researchers to study why some subtypes are more vulnerable to disease than others.

See the full article: Patani et al., Nature Communications, in press.