Pluripotent stem cell-derived neurons may be a viable Parkinson's disease treatment

A team of researchers from Rush University, Yale University, the University of Colorado and the St. Kitts Biomedical Research Foundation transplanted human embryonic stem cells into primate laboratory animals modeled with Parkinson's disease and found "robust survival" of the cells after six weeks and indications that the cells were "well ... (more)

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-06-pluripotent-stem-cell-derived-neurons-viable.html