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Default Study of Live Human Neurons Reveals Parkinson's Origins

..."This is the first time that human dopamine neurons have ever been generated from Parkinson's disease patients with parkin mutations," says Jian Feng, PhD, professor of physiology and biophysics in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the study's lead author...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0207121812.htm


..."This new technology was a game-changer for Parkinson's disease and for other neurological diseases," says Feng. "It finally allowed us to obtain the material we needed to study this disease."...

...One type of Parkinson's Disease brain cell created in lab...

Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/319278
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Born in 1969, diagnosed PD in 2007, first symptoms 2004. DBS in July 2016.
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