From "MIT engineers turn skin cells directly into neurons for cell therapy" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44310706 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=

From "MIT engineers turn skin cells directly into neurons for cell therapy" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44310706 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44310706 .. https://news.mit.edu/2025/mit-engineers-turn-skin-cells-into-neurons-for-cell-therapy-0313 https://news.mit.edu/2025/mit-engineers-turn-skin-cells-into... : "Proliferation history and transcription factor levels drive direct conversion to motor neurons" (2025) https://www.cell.com/cell-systems/abstract/S2405-4712(25)00038-9 https://www.cell.com/cell-systems/abstract/S2405-4712(25)000... Infrared light stimulates neuronal growth and blue and green inhibit neuronal growth; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43087954 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43087954 "Dance training superior to physical exercise in inducing brain plasticity (2018)" https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0196636 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41732782 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41732782 ; and is plasticity neurogenesis? Does boosting neurogenesis improve iPSC outcomes?