Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Rats Get Skin Stem Cell Assistance with Brain Disease
Reprogrammed skin stem cells helped treat rats with brains conditioned by researchers to simulate Parkinson's Disease. This is a big step towards finding similar treatments for humans, as the cells were able to successfully integrate into the neural system. The use of viruses to carry the new genes into the stem cellsis one danger due to the possibility that this approach could cause cancer. The researchers state that their gene transfer approach is equivalent to the therapeutic cloning research that was carried out last month on mice with Parkinson's at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute in New York (only without the same ethical dilemma). http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN0719560620080407
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