Testing Autism Drugs in Human Brain Cells

Submitted by Anonymous on November 12, 2010 - 08:42
Source: 
MIT Technology Review
Link: 
http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/26702/
Date Published: 
November 12, 2010
Abstract: 

A team from the University of California, San Diego, and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies devised a way to study brain cells from patients with autism, and found a way reverse cellular abnormalities in neurons that have been associated with autism, specifically Rett Syndrome.