Modeling Autism in a Dish

Researchers from Stalk Institute of Biological Sciences and the University of California opportunely used human activated pluripotent stem cells, evolved from patients with Rett Syndrome. So they could reduplicate autism and study the molecular pathogenesis of the disease in the lab. Their findings acknowledge disease-specific cellular defects such as scant functional conjunction between Rett neurons and displayed that these symptoms are convertible, saying that maybe one day autism might be a treatable condition. Before, scientists had been constricted to study the brains of people with autistic spectrum disorders via imaging technologies or postmortem brain tissues. The ability to obtain iPS cells from patients skin cells, can be persuaded to develop into the cell type damaged by the disease gives scientists an aberrant view of autism.