Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Date: October 11, 2007
Summary
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports on a new study to test if adult brain cells can deliver a protein to the brain to protect the brain from Parkinson's disease and other neurological disorders:
"University of Florida regenerative medicine researchers have received a $1.6 million federal grant to study whether "designer" cells can be used to rescue the brain from Parkinson's and other neurological diseases. Using cell cultures and a rodent model of Parkinson's disease, scientists want to study whether stemlike cells from mice and from adult human brains and bone marrow can be adapted to deliver a potentially protective protein to the brain."
