New Parkinson's Brain Bank Offers Hope

                                                                                         

There are, it seems, at least some researchers at Oxford University who are involved in relevant and cutting edge research, academics whose work does not involve tormenting animals and that offers genuine hope to sufferers of Parkinson’s disease.

                                                                                                                            

A ‘brain bank’ of artificially grown human brain cells is being built up which will enable scientists to study how the disease develops in people in unprecedented detail.

                                                                                                 

Small pieces of skin are taken from Parkinson’s disease sufferers which are then turned into brain cells using a new stem cell technique. These can then be grown in the lab in unlimited quantities and can be compared with the cells from those that don’t suffer from the disease.

                                                                                               

For the first time researchers will be able to look at the cells before they deteriorate and study the earliest changes to learn why it is the cells get sick and die. This will hopefully lead to treatments that can reverse that process or help patients regain normal function.

                                                                                         

Meanwhile, other Oxford University researchers insist that their horrific experiments of cutting and butchering the brains of live animals is necessary... well necessary to those who aren’t ‘qualified’ to do anything else maybe...