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Ricardo Dolmetsch: Neurodevelopmental disease: Drug Discovery in Neuroscience
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45 minutes
Released:
Dec 24, 2020
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Drug discovery for diseases of the nervous system is difficult. Although mouse models are helpful to study many human diseases, they have serious limitations for understanding neurological and psychiatric disease. Dolmetsch describes a method developed by his group to produce induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neurons from patients. Using these iPSC neurons, they can identify molecular defects associated with a neurodevelopmental disease and then identify medicines to treat those diseases.
Released:
Dec 24, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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