Word: brundin
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...controlling the processes whereby cells differentiate - the genes, signal pathways and other factors that promote or inhibit cell development. And they are still debating the best way to expand the process so that millions of patients can be treated with stem cells. Transplantation poses its own problems. Patrik Brundin, a professor of neuroscience at Sweden's Lund University, started transplanting embryonic tissue in the brains of patients with Parkinson's disease back in 1987 with techniques similar to those that will be used with stem cells. "Fifteen years after starting clinical trials we still don't have a ready therapy...