Genetics’ Paul Tesar and team find way to convert skin cells to brain cells

Case Western Reserve team finds way to convert skin cells to brain cells destroyed by cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis

The Plain Dealer: Paul Tesar, assistant professor of genetics and genome sciences, led a team that developed a technique to convert skin cells to the types of brain cells that are found damaged in patients with cerebral palsy and multiple sclerosis. “It’s a cellular alchemy, the ability to control and direct a cell to become something else,” he said.