dan_bgblue
06-26-2020, 09:40 PM
One-time treatment generates new neurons, eliminates Parkinson's disease in mice (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200625102540.htm)
"It's my dream to see this through to clinical trials, to test this approach as a treatment for Parkinson's disease, but also many other diseases where neurons are lost, such as Alzheimer's and Huntington's diseases and stroke," Fu said. "And dreaming even bigger -- what if we could target PTB to correct defects in other parts of the brain, to treat things like inherited brain defects?
"I intend to spend the rest of my career answering these questions."
"It's my dream to see this through to clinical trials, to test this approach as a treatment for Parkinson's disease, but also many other diseases where neurons are lost, such as Alzheimer's and Huntington's diseases and stroke," Fu said. "And dreaming even bigger -- what if we could target PTB to correct defects in other parts of the brain, to treat things like inherited brain defects?
"I intend to spend the rest of my career answering these questions."