Archive for the ‘Parkinson's Disease’ Category
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Scientists have reprogrammed adult rat skin cells to become embryonic-like stem cells and alleviate Parkinson's disease in rats, according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Boston Globe reports. According to the Globe, the study might have both political and medical significance ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Scientists in the US made new brain cells by inserting reprogrammed adult skin cells into fetal mouse brains and then used them to reduce symptoms of Parkinson's disease in rats. While this is a long way from demonstrating such a method might be effective in humans, it brings that ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Neurons derived from reprogrammed adult skin cells successfully integrated into fetal mouse brains and reduced symptoms in a Parkinson's disease rat model, according to a study published on April 7 in the online Early Edition of PNAS."This is the first demonstration that reprogrammed cells can integrate into the neural system ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq:ACAD), a biopharmaceutical company utilizing innovative technology to fuel drug discovery and clinical development of novel treatments for central nervous system disorders, announced that it has initiated its second Phase III trial designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of pimavanserin as a treatment for Parkinson's disease ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Regular use of some pesticides can "more than double the risk of developing Parkinson's disease", The Daily Telegraph reports. Research has found that "people who reported using insect sprays or weed killers at home or as part of their job, faced a more than 60% greater risk of developing the ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
The injection of uterine stem cells trigger growth of new brain cells in mice with Parkinson's disease, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in an abstract presented at the 2008 Society for Gynecologic Investigation (SGI) Annual Scientific Meeting held March 26-29 in San Diego, California."Previously, we were able to coax ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
In a step closer to developing a treatment for Parkinson's in humans using therapeutic cloning, scientists in the US and Japan have for the first time used cells from a mouse to treat Parkinson's in the same mouse.The study is published in the advanced online issue of the journal Nature ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Research led by investigators at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) has shown that therapeutic cloning, also known as somatic-cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), can be used to treat Parkinson's disease in mice. The study's results are published in the March 23 online edition of the journal Nature Medicine.For the first time, ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
UCB announced today that the company will be recalling Neupro® (rotigotine transdermal system) in the United States and certain batches in Europe. The recall decision resulted from ongoing monitoring of marketed product, which revealed a deviation from the approved product specification. As a result, there will be an out-of-stock situation ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
International Stem Cell Corporation (OTCBB:ISCO) announced that its human parthenogenetic stem cell lines will be used in Germany in studies aimed at creating specific cell types to treat human neural diseases such as Parkinson's disease. The work will be headed by Dr. Albrecht Mueller of the University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, ...
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