Direct conversion of skin cells to neurons
Marius Wernig - Professor of Pathology and (by courtesy) of Chemical & Systems Biology
Bio-X Affiliated Faculty
The Wernig lab is generally interested in the mechanisms that determine cell fate identity.
Stanford Bio-X Seed Grants
Determining feedback mechanisms linking cell cycle control and stem cell pluripotency using an engineered CRISPR/dCas9 system
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 8 - 2016
Generation of Neurons from Fibroblasts with Direct Gene Delivery
Interdisciplinary Initiatives Program Round 5 – 2010
Research News
Nerve cells actively repress alternative cell fates
April 5, 2017 - Stanford Medicine News Center
A regulatory protein blocks the expression of non-neuronal genes in nerve cells, find Bio-X...
New study hints at why infamous gene variant increases odds of developing Alzheimer’s disease
January 19, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliates Tom Südhof and Marius Wernig have established a connection that may help explain why...
Resetting leukemia cells
January 12, 2017 - Stanford Medicine Scope
Bio-X affiliate Ravindra Majeti and then postdoctoral fellow Mark Chao became the first to reset a human...