Parkinson patients' stem cells made free of reprogramming genes
Thursday, March 5, 2009 - 14:28
in Health & Medicine
Whitehead Institute researchers have developed a novel method to remove potential cancer-causing genes during the reprogramming of skin cells from Parkinson's disease patients into an embryonic-stem-cell-like state. Scientists then used the resulting induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells to derive dopamine-producing neurones, the cell type that degenerates in Parkinson's disease patients...
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