Source: Wired
Posted: June 14, 2007 2:00 AM EDT
Summary:
Wired reports on a new experiments in which scientists successfully treated Parkinson's disease in monkeys using fetal cells:
"Stem cells work in mysterious ways. That's the tantalizing finding from scientists who treated monkeys with Parkinson's disease using fetal stem cells. Their results mark the first successful stem cell therapy for Parkinson's in primates. The big news, however, is not simply that the treatment worked, but how it worked: by rescuing and rejuvenating, rather than replacing, diseased cells."
