The way neurodegenerative diseases are treated may be revolutionized as Laval University researchers in Canada comes up producing neurons from human skin stem cells.
This new finding is being looked upon as a major breakthrough in the field of stem cell and giving the same idea professor Francois Berthod said, ‘It marks the first time such an advanced state of nerve cell differentiation has been achieved from human skin. ‘
Throwing more light on the way, this new method works he further says:
We could take a patient’s skin cells and use them to produce perfectly compatible neurons, thus eliminating the risk of rejection. We could then transplant these nerve cells in the diseased areas of the brain.
This finding is really tremendous which I hope would pave way for better treatment of neurodegenerative diseases like Alper’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Ataxia telangiectasia.
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