Lab results promising

LAB monkeys with Parkinson’s symptoms regained significant mobility after neurons made from human stem cells were inserted into their brains, researchers reported in a study hailed as “groundbreaking”.

The promising results, reported in the journal Nature, were presented as the last step before human clinical trials, perhaps as early as next year, the study’s senior author, Jun Takahashi, a professor at Kyoto University, said.

Parkinson’s is a degenerative disease that erodes motor functions.