Genetics (Parkinson's Disease)

Animal Cloning Technology Applied to Disease

Published in Transplant Weekly, May 11th, 1998

Researchers at the University of Colorado (CU) Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado, the University of Massachusetts, and Advanced Cell Technologies, have successfully treated parkinsonism in rats by using fetal brain cells from cloned cows.

The research demonstrates that transgenic cloned animal tissue can be used in the treatment of a disease. Results of the research study appeared in the May 1, 1998, issue of Nature Medicine.

Parkinson's disease, which affects an estimated one million Americans, is associated with reduced levels of dopamine in the brain. Previous research, pioneered at the CU-Health Sciences Center, has shown that symptoms...

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