Tracy Young-Pearse and Christina Muratore, Harvard University (IMAGE)

Harvard University

Tracy Young-Pearse and Christina Muratore, Harvard University

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Harvard stem cell scientists Tracy Young-Pearse (left) and Christina Muratore have converted skins cells from patients with early-onset Alzheimer's into the types of neurons affected by the disease, making it possible to study Alzheimer's in living human cells.

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B. D. Colen/Harvard Staff

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