Motor neurons control our muscle movements. In ALS, these cells die. In 2012, CIRM’s Board awarded over $17 million for ALS research and clinical trials at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Allied with the Department of Defense The Department of Defense (DoD) added to that with a $2.5 million grant to the same Cedars-Sinai team for a … Continue reading CIRM Award for ALS Research and Clinical Trials at Cedars-Sinai

Motor neuron progenitors made from embryonic stem cellsThe best scientists are, in many ways, like great chefs. It’s not the ingredients that they use that make a great meal, but how they blend them together. In the same way scientists often have the same basic elements but it’s the way they work with those that … Continue reading Building more nerves of the brain and spinal cord, faster and more efficiently