Tag: stemcell

  • Stem cells to be transplanted into brains of Parkinson’s patients in world-first trials

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    By Emma Lorinsan The deterioration of motor skills in Parkinson’s patients is driven by the decline of dopamine production, but researchers in Japan are making exciting progress on a way to potentially arrest the slide. Following promising experiments on monkeys last year, scientists at Kyoto University are now preparing to begin transplanting reprogrammed stem cells into […]

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