Einer unserer Forscher führte die Versuche ein paar Monate später, 2008, weiter. Er entnahm Hautgewebe von Menschen, die an ALS litten -- einer degenerativen Nervenerkrankung. Er wandelte sie in die IPS-Zellen um, von denen ich gerade sprach. Die IPS-Zellen wiederum wandelte er in jene Motoneuronen um, die im Verlauf der Krankheit absterben.
So a few months later, in 2008, one of our scientists built on that research. He took skin biopsies, this time from people who had a disease, ALS, or as you call it in the U.K., motor neuron disease. He turned them into the IPS cells that I've just told you about, and then he turned those IPS cells into the motor neurons that actually were dying in the disease.