“It’s my dream to see this through to clinical trials, to test this approach as a treatment for Parkinson’s disease, but also many other diseases where neurons are lost, such as Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s diseases and stroke,” Fu says. “And dreaming even bigger — what if we could target PTB to correct defects in other parts of the brain, to treat things like inherited brain defects?”
I am unqualified to have a view on whether this research will pan out. But tolerance of eccentricity and radicalism is a key part of the success of the scientific method.
I just went and told all the mice in my house.
I don’t know if it’s the same with Parkinson’s but with head injuries, of which I know personally, there’s also a need to shut off the damaged neurons that are causing pain and sleeplessness and night terrors and headaches etc
I know they are working on that right now too. So a combination of shutting down the damaged ones and creating new ones would be great
Twitter and Wokebook found a way to transform multiple types of Lefties into morons...
Nobel Prize, incoming.
Prayers up!
This is the Golden Age for mice.
I have been wondering what blessings/cures ("accidental" discoveries) will come out of the massive covid research.
While the PTB are using the Chicom virus to dismantle Western Civilization, what did they inadvertantly do to cause a huge blessing.
Because that's how the God of Abraham rolls. Evil never catches on but hey, thanks for playing, idjuts.
Keep this,out of the brains of libtard socialists.
Don’t need them to be any smarter than they already are.
I don’t wish Parkinsons on anyone including democrats.
The next door neighbor had an advanced case of it a few years ago and decided he’d had enough and OD’ed on his meds.
**In Parkinson’s, dopamine cells in the brain die. Thus, to assess their method, the researchers used a chemical that poisons dopamine neurons and creates symptoms of Parkinson’s disease in mice.
After using the chemical to kill dopamine neurons in the mice, researchers silenced PTB. They found that 30% of astrocytes turned into neurons. Moreover, these newly generated neurons seemed to grow normally and even began to send connections to other parts of the brain, like normal neurons.**
What this article leaves out is that Parkinson’s disease is an autoimmune disease. That means that the immune system is actively seeking and killing the target cells which it has identified as targets of pathogen proteins.
If we give the immune system more targets then it will kill them too.
Somebody needs to find some way to stop the autoimmune attack besides using steroids to kill off the immune system.
My mom died from Parkinson’s disease. I’d love to see this killer crushed by science once and for all.
Mice always get the best treatment first!
We lost my beloved Father to this horrible disease 2 years ago next week.
Keep this up, we’ll have the healthiest mice on the planet.
Humans, well..., not so much.
LOL
BUMP
Prayers up for guidance for the scientists working on this project.
This is huge