NNew research appearing in the journal Nature Biotechnology answers important questions about the viability of treatments that seek to replace diseased and aged cells in the central nervous system with healthy ones. Its findings have implications for a number of neurological and psychiatric disorders—including Huntington's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and schizophrenia—that have been linked to glia, a population of cells that support brain health and function. "A broad variety of disorders we associate with neuronal loss now appear to be caused by dysfunctional glial cells," said University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) professor of Neurology Steve Goldman, MD, PhD, lead author of the new study.

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