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by Andrea Rinaldi

RESEARCH ROUND-UP

Parkinson disease: stem cell promise

Email: Andrea Rinaldi - rinaldi@unica.it
News from The Scientist 2003, 4(1):20030922-03

Published 22 September 2003

Embryonic stem (ES) cells display a prodigious ability to differentiate into diverse cell types and are seen as a promising renewable source of specialized cells for use in regenerative medicine. Since the use of human stem cells raises ethical concerns and is tightly regulated, animal models provide a useful tool to further explore the potential of this technology. In the September 21 Nature Biotechnology, Tiziano Barberi and colleagues at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center demonstrate that transplantation of dopaminergic neurons derived from cloned mouse ES cells can significantly improve the condition of parkinsonian mice (Nature Biotechnology, DOI:10.1038/nbt870, September 21, 2003).


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