UNITED KINGDOM–(ENEWSPF)–17 June 2011. Oxford University researchers have succeeded in using stem cell technology to grow nerve cells in the laboratory from initial skin samples taken from Parkinson’s patients. It’s the first large-scale effort of its kind in the UK.
The advance will allow nerve cells that are just like those of the people with Parkinson’s to be studied intensively in the laboratory in ways that weren’t possible before.
The study aims to investigate what…
