Kyoto University said Friday it has conducted the world's first transplant of induced pluripotent stem cells to treat Parkinson's disease.Nerve cells created from the artificially derived stem cells were transplanted into the brain of a patient in his 50s in October in a treatment that researchers hope to develop into a method widely used internationally and covered by health insurance."By also cooperating with companies, we want to develop a mass production system that enables us to deliver nerve cells derived from iPS cells to all over the world," Jun Takahashi, a professor at the Japanes…READ FULL ARTICLE
