Magdalena Kegel, —

Magdalena is a writer with a passion for bridging the gap between the people performing research, and those who want or need to understand it. She writes about medical science and drug discovery. She holds an MS in Pharmaceutical Bioscience and a PhD — spanning the fields of psychiatry, immunology, and neuropharmacology — from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.

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January 7, 2016 News by Magdalena Kegel

Dysfunctional ALS Patient Skin-Derived Muscle Neurons Rescued by Kenpaullone

A new proof-of-concept study reports converting adult skin cells from ALS patients into muscle neurons without first transforming them into stem cells. The patient-derived muscle neurons were dysfunctional, but when treated with a small molecule, the team could restore neuronal function. The use of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)…

January 6, 2016 News by Magdalena Kegel

ALS and Other Neurological Disorders May Benefit from Prions Created in Lab

A research group — coordinated by Giuseppe Legname from The Laboratory of Prion Disease, SISSA, Trieste, Italy — has found a way to build artificial prions, assembling the proteins in a serial manner. The study was performed in collaboration with the Carlo Besta Neurological Institute in Milan and the results were published in the journal…

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Magdalena Kegel, —

Articles by Magdalena Kegel

Dysfunctional ALS Patient Skin-Derived Muscle Neurons Rescued by Kenpaullone

ALS and Other Neurological Disorders May Benefit from Prions Created in Lab

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