Source: Reuters
Date: April 6, 2008 1:21pm EDT
Summary:
Reuters reports researchers have discovered that brain cells administered to patients with Parkinson's disease can survive for up to ten years:
"Transplants of brain cells given to Parkinson's disease patients survive for 10 years or more, three teams of researchers reported on Sunday, but at least some of the transplants were damaged. The researchers disagree about whether this damage shows that Parkinson's disease is a long-term, ongoing process that continues to attack the brain into old age, or the result of the transplants themselves. But they agree that their studies, published in the journal Nature Medicine, demonstrate the benefits of the sometimes controversial brain cell transplants."
