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Condition Overview Prevention Diagnosis Research Clinical Trials Treatments Events Lifestyle Emotional Impacts View All Oct '0531 More news about Stem Cells by StaffTreatments According to the article in Red Nova, BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics is working on promising research involving stem cell technology. Today they announced some additional successes in tests using rats with Parkinson's disease. Researchers transplanted cells into the rats resulting in improvements of Parkinson's symptoms. The two BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics technologies that seem to hold promise are the use of glial cell line derived neurotropic factor (GDNF) expressing cells and dopamine producing neuron-like cells. These therapies are in clinical trials in humans. Click here for the entire article. Related Articles 02-24-2005LentiVector-based Gene Transfer Therapy for the treatment of late stage Parkinson's Disease 10-29-2005Living with PD 04-25-2005Glutamic Acid Decarboxylase (GAD) Gene Therapy near completion of Phase 1 Trials 02-18-2005Future Horizons in Parkinson's Drugs 04-20-2005A Visit to The Parkinson's Institute Booth

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