Scientists hope treatment may be available in five years.
“It has taken a long time to get to this stage but hopefully results from these trials will mean that, in a few years, we might be able to offer tissue transplants as standard treatments for Parkinson’s,” toldAccording to the
“We now know that putting dopamine cells in the brain will work and the procedure is safe,” Barker told. “There is no longer a problem about supply of sufficient tissue because we can manufacture these cells in large numbers in the laboratory. “That means that we are now at a point where we can use stem-cell transplants as treatments for Parkinson’s patients, though it will take several years before we will know that these work and can be used as standard treatments for Parkinson’s disease,” added Barker.
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