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What are your opinions on the case of George Lopez from 2020?

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Could the PD community benefit from such cases? I liked the fact that they used a new type of syringe.

"“You can’t teleport cells into a brain,” Schweitzer said. You need a needle that delivers the cells to a precise spot and does so without squeezing them. Yet in some previous cell therapies, “more than 90% of the cells died shortly after transplantation,” Schweitzer said, probably because the needles plunged the cells into the brain as one big ball. That gave the cells no access to oxygen or nutrients.

Schweitzer therefore developed a motor-driven syringe “to keep the cells from blasting out the bottom of the needle” in one blob, he explained, and instead deposit them “as you draw out the needle.” He worked with the manufacturer to build an off-the-shelf syringe that would extrude 2 microliters of cells per minute into the tract created when the needle entered. When they tried it in rat and pig brains, the syringe left behind a nice line of cells with access to nutrients and oxygen."

Maybe some other trials would have been more successful if they used this type of syringe.

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Wondering what would happen if a billionaire would get PD. Someone like Bill Gates...

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Sergey Brin's mother has it and he has one of the common mutations. He donates more than 25m per year to the MJFF, and funds other PD projects as well.

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Thanks. Reading about it on wired.com/2010/06/ff-sergey...

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After some frustrating delays with the clinical trial. Doc and Kwang-Soo have fixed some minor hiccups and are about 4 months away from beginning(again) the clinical trial. They are incredibly frustrated with how long the “process” takes- but will continue to fight. I’ll post again as soon as we get the final go ahead from the FDA.

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