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Parkinson’s disease can cause muscles to become rigid and limbs to tremble uncontrollably. It attacks people around three in a hundred of people aged over 65. The loss of a particular type of brain cell called dopaminergic (DA) neurons in the part of the brain called the substantia nigra will cause this desease.

Now, a team of researchers from Sweden are developing new ways to grow brain cells in the laboratory that could one day be used to treat patients with Parkinson’s disease. It was mentioned in an international conference of biologists organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF) recently.

Stem cell therapy hold the promise of treating disease. It grows new tissues and organs from stem cells — ‘blank’ cells that have the potential to develop into fully mature or ‘differentiated’ cells.

The stem cell will growing into new brain cells and able to be transplanted into the patient. Hopefully, this cells also could be ideal for developing and testing new drugs to treat brain disease.

Taken from materials provided by European Science Foundation and enriched from ScienceDaily.

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