Stanford scientists create neurones with symptoms of Parkinson's disease from patient's skin cells
Friday, March 4, 2011 - 08:40
in Health & Medicine
Neurones have been derived from the skin of a woman with a genetic form of Parkinson's disease and have been shown to replicate some key features of the condition in a dish, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The scientists hope to use the neurones to learn more about the disorder and to test possible treatments. Such a tool is critical because there are no good animal models for Parkinson's disease. It also validates the use of induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, to model various diseases...