CIRM Stem Cell Research Updates: Autism syndrome modeled in lab dish points to futu...

CIRM Stem Cell Research Updates: Autism syndrome modeled in lab dish points to futu...: Here's a major stumbling block in developing therapies for human diseases -- ..Here's a major stumbling block in developing therapies for human diseases -- it's hard to find a fix if you don't really know what's wrong. Take autism spectrum disorders. By now doctors are pretty good at identifying signs of the disease, but without access to brain cells researchers don't really know what's going wrong.

This work is being done by Dr. Ricardo Dolmetsch and his team at Stanford. They are particularly interested in understanding how electrical activity and calcium signals control the development of the brain and how this is altered in children with autism spectrum disorders.

I plan on posting more here as part of my featuring the work of key Autism Researchers like Dr. Valerie Hu at GWU. She will also be featured on my "News Behind the Neuroscience News" Blog at www.neuromics.net.