An international team has restored mice with a Parkinson’s-like disease back to health, using neurons made from their own cloned skin cells.

Sloan-Kettering Institute and RIKEN Center (Japan) researchers created embryonic stem (ES) cell lines from the cells, coaxed them to develop into neurons, and transplanted them back into the mice, which got significantly better, without suppressing their immune systems to allow the grafts to survive.

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