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PARKINSON'S DISEASE NEWS from Viartis The following, in reverse date order, is all significant new research, news reports, new books, and new resources concerning Parkinson's ge 2nd March 2009 - New research CLAIMED STEM CELL BREAKTHROUGH Nature [2009] advance online publication 1 March 2009 ( Knut Woltjen, Iacovos P. Michael, Paria Mohseni1, Ridham Desai1, Maria Mileikovsky, Riikka Hämäläinen, Rebecca Cowling, Wei Wang, Pentao Liu, Marina Gertsenstein, Keisuke Kaji, Hoon-Ki Sung, Andras Nagy) Complete abstract Sinai Hospital's Dr.Nagy and his team have discovered a new method of generating stem cells that does not require embryos as starting points and that "could be used to generate cells from many adult tissues such as a patient's own skin cells." Their method does not require viruses, and so "overcomes a hurdle for the future of safe, personalized stem cell therapies in humans". They claim that "This research is a huge step forward on the path to new stem cell-based therapies" and that this could lead to cures for illnesses such as Parkinson's disease. For more information go to the News release. However, numerous stem cell operations in Parkinson's Disease have failed to rid anyone of Parkinson's Disease. The failings would not be affected by this new method. The latest of these caused the patient to end up worse than before the stem cell operation. For more information go to Stem cell surgery fails to rid Parkinson's Disease. The use of stem cell surgery is based on the false assumption that there is massive cell loss in Parkinson's Disease, yet not a single study in the entire medical literature has ever shown that there is massive cell loss in Parkinson's Disease. So although they are overcoming a technical and ethical problem, they lack a sound scientific basis. Rayilyn Brown Director AZNPF Arizona Chapter National Parkinson Foundation [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn