Virus-free embryonic-like stem cells made from skin of Parkinson's disease patients

Thursday, March 5, 2009 - 13:14 in Health & Medicine

Researchers reporting in the March 6th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, have developed a new way to produce human embryonic-like stem cells that are free of the viruses used to insert the key ingredients. They showed they could make those embryonic-like cells by reprogramming cells taken from people with unexplained (or idiopathic) Parkinson's disease.

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