How Can We Make Cells Turn Into Nervous Nerve Cells?

Sam Anglos has created a synthetic form of the filaments that surround nerve cells. The molecules self-organize into tiny filaments, and they can then move in a certain way to communicate with each other. This is important because those receptors or parts of the cell that understand those signals are also moving. It's like creating something more akin to the developing brain for these cells to develop in so they're fooled into thinking they're in the mature nervous system.