Did you know T cells can become neurons in the lab?

Not dead yet!

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It's a process called transdifferentiation where one cell converts to another cell when induced by certain proteins.

My take on it is that there will probably be a day when we recognize this as part of the healing process. That magical healing that nobody understands but all our medicine depends on. :)

[article=http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/05/30/1720273115] Current approaches to obtaining human neurons are not easy to scale to many patients. Here we describe a facile, one-step conversion of human adult peripheral blood T cells directly into functional neurons using episomal vectors without the need for previous in vitro expansion. [/article]

What's interesting is they are studying Autism with this method. That's too many coincidences... this has to be relevant to ME/CFS as well. I mean, T cells, neurons, Autism?

There is a video on facebook that alerted me to it:
 

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