Fluorescent Neural Cells from Monkey Skin Mature Into Several Types of Brain Cells in Monkeys

Mar. 14, 2013 — For the first time, scientists have transplanted neural cells derived from a monkey's skin into its brain and watched the cells develop into several types of mature brain cells, according to the authors of a new study in Cell Reports. After six months, the cells looked entirely normal, and were only detectable because they initially were tagged with a fluorescent protein.

Picture shows a neuron, created in the Su-Chun Zhang lab at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, that makes dopamine, a neurotransmitter involved in normal movement. The cell originated in an induced pluripotent stem cell, which derive from adult tissues. Similar neurons survived and integrated normally after transplant into monkey brains—as a proof of principle that personalized medicine may one day treat Parkinson's disease. (Credit: Image courtesy Yan Liu and Su-Chun Zhang, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin–Madison

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