News: Latest – distributed around Yorkshire September 15, 2016 10:27:39 AM
A team of Australian researchers have successfully performed a procedure injecting stem cells into the brain of a Parkinson’s Disease patient. The researchers are hopeful that this could be the future of Parkinson’s treatment.
Doctors from the Royal Melbourne Hospital successfully injected stem cells onto the brain of a 64-year old Parkinson’s Disease patient. This operation, the first of its kind, marks a positive step towards developing better Parkinson’s treatment.
Researcher Garish Nair, a neurosurgeon at Royal Melbourne, led the procedure. He and his team injected millions of stem cells at 14 sites in the patient’s brain. “The challenge was to do it in a way that you minimize the number of times that you pass your instrument through the brain, to minimize the damage,” explains Dr Nair. To do so, they had to perform around 4 dummy rounds on a 3D model before the actual procedure.
The stem cell injection, the researchers hope, would boost the levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine in the brain. Parkinson’s is known to exhibit symptoms of “tremor, rigidity, and being unable to express emotions, affecting walking. All of those functions are mediated by dopamine,” Dr. Nair explains. If successful, patient would display improvement in these areas.
The use of stem cells in medical treatment is largely controversial because of ethical concerns, particularly with embryonic stem cells. The procedure, however, does not present an ethical problem. The stem cells used were created using neural cells in a lab of a biotech company in California.
“So the beauty of this technique is that this is an unfertilized egg activated in a lab, so there are no ethical issues surrounding this to be used as mainstream treatment down the line,” says an optimistic Dr. Nair.
Read more: http://futurism.com/the-war-on-parkinsons-stem-cells-successfully-injected-into-patients-brain/
- Blue badge abuse prosecution
- Work begins on Gulliver’s theme park
- Council seeks to change rules on sex establishments
- More success for Rotherham’s Operation Alligator
- Rising numbers of Yorkshire child abuse image cases
- Man receives further jail sentence for child sexual exploitation
- Clifton Park tennis courts reopen
- Elsecar go ‘all out’ for and evening with Geoffrey Boycott
- Venus has potential but not for water
- Food in Crisis Christmas Appeal 2018
- Snap up a new career at UCB
- Rotherham care homes could close
- YouTuber and X Factor contestant to headline at lights switch-on
- Former Rotherham United striker jailed for 15 years
- Barnsley Safeguarding Children Board has changed its name
- Help for victims of grooming and sexual exploitation
- It’s never too late to learn
- Rare book relating to pit ponies
- World’s largest underwater restaurant opens in Norway
- Waste scandal firm seeks £15m from Yorkshire NHS trusts
- Four charged in connection to a collision in Barnsley
- X-Factor Star to Appear in Rotherham Civic Theatre Panto
- What are the symptoms of coronavirus?
- World Book Night 2019; In Conversation with Joanna Cannon
- Forge Island car park gains 200 extra spaces
- South Yorkshire Police Are Recruiting
- Cudworth community comes together following collision
- Open Circle Night Tonight
- Ancient Aztec temple and ball court unearthed in heart of Mexico City
- Blue badge abuse comes at a price
- Mexborough High Street
- Serious collision near Stainforth, Doncaster – can you help?
- Ed Sheeran documentary “Songwriter” hits Apple Music today
- Disappearance of Alena Grlakova declared as murder inquiry
- Sherlock Holmes of police dogs’ successfully created through cloning in China
- Jury out on Taxi driver accused of rape
- Groom Brothers Mexborough
- Cliff Richard wins BBC privacy case at High Court
- Yorkshire Show 1902
- Is It BBC Fake News Time Again