Source: Newark Star-Ledger
Date: March 12, 2007
Summary:
An international team of scientists, headed by Evan Snyder, a physician-scientist at the Burnham Institute in California, have come up with what could someday be one of the first workable treatments using embryonic stem cells to thwart a disease. Snyder, along with colleagues at Burnham and the University of Oxford in England, studied mice with a mutation that impedes the normal processing of fatty proteins for brain development. The mice develop Sandhoff disease, a fatal neurodegenerative disorder closely related to Tay-Sachs disease and part of a larger class of brain diseases like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and autism. The scientists compared the effectiveness of embryonic stem cells versus the "adult" variety and found them to be equally effective.
