Reprogramming brain cells important first step for new Parkinson's therapy
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 15:30
in Health & Medicine
In efforts to find new treatments for Parkinson's Disease (PD), researchers have directly reprogrammed astrocytes, the most plentiful cell type in the central nervous system, into dopamine-producing neurons. PD is marked by the degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the midbrain.