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Daley, who is also a professor at Harvard Medical School, said that he and his colleagues created 20 stable iPS cell lines from patients with genetic diseases including Parkinson's, Huntington's, Down Syndrome, juvenile-onset Type I diabetes, and two types of muscular dystrophy...
...older patients proved no more difficult than growing them from younger ones, says Eggan. "This study puts those issues definitively to rest," he says. "It opens the door to being able to make patient-specific stem-cell lines [to treat] diseases that affect people very late in life, like Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease...
...This opens the door to being able to make patient-specific, stem cell lines from diseases which affect people very late in life like Parkinson's disease or Alzheimer's disease," Eggan said...
...difference in their function. So the researchers' best guess is that the drive to exercise is at least partly influenced by brain chemicals - a reasonable hypothesis, given that dopamine or serotonin plays a significant role in several human drives and behaviors, including hunger, addiction, mood and movement disorders like Parkinson's disease...
...devising ways to improve life for affected families. Children with FXS are referred to programs that offer language services, occupational therapy and special education. Randi Hagerman is a believer in drugs to treat anxiety and hyperactivity. For patients with FXTAS, she prescribes exercise and medications already used to treat Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease...