Doctors have transplanted brain cells to treat Parkinson's in a historic first for the medical world, Stat News reported. Harvard University stem cell biologist Dr Kwang-Soo Kim gained brief notoriety in 2009 when he published a paper about turning patients' own skin cells into stem cells, then turning those into brain cells that might treat the devastating neurological condition. The kind the Dr Kim's lab needed were dopamine neurons found in the midbrain. As it happened the stem cells Dr Kim was making were well-suited to transform into dopamine neurons. In 2018, he underwent a second surgery, injecting millions more stem cells into the other side of Doc's brain.

Source: Daily Mail May 13, 2020 00:55 UTC