In new research, Jeffrey Kordower and his colleagues describe a process for converting non-neuronal cells into functioning neurons able to take up residence in the brain, send out their fibrous branches across neural tissue, form synapses, dispense dopamine and restore capacities undermined by Parkinson’s destruction of dopaminergic cells.
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He was able to combine pathology and biochemistry to help figure out how and why people get diseases as disparate as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and A.L.S.