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...team of Harvard researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute recently made a significant step in creating clinically-safe, induced pluripotent stem cells, an advance that could be “revolutionary” in treating patients with neuromuscular diseases like Huntington’s and Parkinson??s Diseases, according to the study’s senior author, Lee Rubin...
Former Harvard Medical School Dean Daniel C. Tosteson ’46, whose reforms catalyzed a revolution in modern medical education around the world, died last Wednesday due to complications from a long battle with Parkinson??s disease. He was 84 years old.Tosteson held the deanship for 20 years from 1977 to 1997—a transformational period during which the Medical School overhauled its teaching methods, restructured its academic departments, and increased its endowment nearly ninefold.“He had all the necessary clarity and force of intellect, the capacity to lead and persuade...
...study was ground-breaking partly because it has implication for the treatments of other neurodegenerative diseases, Krainc said. Krainc said that the accumulation of proteins is a “common theme” among all neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson??s diseases. The hope, he added, is to find more specific drugs that will ablate mutant proteins. —Staff writer Gordon Y. Liao can be reached at liao@fas.harvard.edu...
...Ivinson, who conducts research on neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington’s and Parkinson??s, says his center draws 60 percent of its funding from private donors—causing unease about support for future projects...
...lines existing at the time of his directive. Critics of that restriction have long contended that embryonic stem cells—believed to be capable of morphing into any body tissue cells—merit federal support because they could lead to new treatments for degenerative diseases, such as Parkinson??s. Once Obama signs the executive order, researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute will be able to not only tap into this previously unavailable funding stream, but also conduct embryonic research without current onerous restrictions on separating privately and publicly funded research. “You have...