Inês Martins, PhD, managing science editor —

Analysis of a Parkinson’s patient has yielded the first evidence that transplanted nerve cells can survive and function in diseased human brains for almost 25 years. The finding was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), in the study, “…

Important findings linking the protein Connexin 36 with the disrupted communication between nerve cells in Parkinson’s patients may contribute to a better understanding of the disease. The study was developed by Bettina Schwab, a former Ph.D. student at The Netherlands’ University of Twente Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer…