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Research Transforming Mature Neurons into Dopamine Factories could Help Fight Brain Diseases

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Researchers accidentally converted mature neurons into dopaminergic cells (in green) without first reverting them to a stem-cell state.

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Thanks for that, it's a really exciting piece of accidental research!

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Fantastic! Sounds really promising.

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