Even though neurodegenerative diseases often strike in middle age or later, patients could have structural differences in their brains that arise before birth. In a new study in Cell Reports, USC Stem Cell scientists used both patient-derived nerve cells and laboratory mice to demonstrate that the most common genetic cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)…Continue Reading ALS and frontotemporal dementia show origins in utero, according to evidence from mice and patient-derived stem cells
