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Originally Posted by ol'cs
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/...arkinsons.html
This group of researchers in the UK, will probably be the first to cure PD and it WILL be done by cell manipuation. For too many years the "Dopaminergic CELL REPLACEMENT THERAPEUTIC APPROACH" to a PD cure has been put through the wringer and almost abandoned by everybody. BUT, that's what is going to make us walk away from this disease, nothing else!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
People with Parkinson's disease might one day be treated with brain cells made from their own skin........
.......The studies raise the possibility of improving mobility in people with Parkinson's by restoring dopamine production to normal. At present, most patients take a drug called L-dopa to readjust levels, but with varying levels of success.
Both techniques avoid the initial step of converting skin cells into embryo-like pluripotent cells – a technique which poses a possible cancer risk.
many of us believe that this will not happen in our lifetime. I don't get excited over cell replacemet for that and other reasons.