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USC stem cell researcher Justin Ichida provides an update on his work (thanks in part to the ailing publicist).

 

"We have made a major discovery in our search to find a cure for ALS. Feb. 5 on Nature.com, we announced that we have used stem cell technology to create nerve cells in a Petri dish from an actual ALS patient".