Harnessing Neurogenic Potential of Glial Cell Types as an Emerging Strategy for Treating Epilepsy

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28 Oct 2026 0 comments

In every third case of epilepsy, anti-seizure drugs are ineffective, so the search for new therapies for this disease is ongoing. In recent years, new methods for generating cells with desired properties, as well as for the targeted expression of genes in specific cell types in situ within the brain, were designed. These methods allowed researchers to consider the idea of transforming resident glial cells into neurons in conditions like epilepsy; in such pathologies it may rescue both neuronal...