Last year many of you took part in the Parkinson’s Voice Initiative which aims to use voice analysis to diagnose and monitor Parkinson’s. PatientsLikeMe have now launched the next stage of this pioneering study. Background PatientsLikeMe have teamed up with Sage Bionetworks for the next stage of this exciting study – the Patient Voice Analysis…
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Major Discovery in Stem Cell Research?
The 29th January edition of the Guardian reports that a radical and remarkably easy way to make cells that can grow into any tissue in the body has been developed by scientists in Japan. The feat has been hailed as a major discovery by researchers familiar with the work, and if it can be repeated…
Edinburgh Odour Project
For Edinburgh Branch members only: Are you interested in taking part in a new research study? Aim: To determine if some people with Parkinson’s have a unique body odour. Who do the researchers need? Any member of the Edinburgh branch of Parkinson’s UK with or without Parkinson’s. What is involved? Wearing and sleeping in a…
SHARE: Clinical Trials Register
There is now an exciting new project called The Scottish Health Research Register (SHARE) which will establish a database of people who are willing to participate in research, and aims to build up one million registered users within the next five years. You can register via their web page – just click on the link…
Michael J. Fox Foundation awards grant for Exenatide research
Following encouraging results recently published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation describing the progress of a cohort of patients treated with Exenatide for their Parkinson’s disease (PD), The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research has awarded a grant of $1.98 million to Dr. T Foltynie to pursue this avenue of research. Exenatide is a…
Stem Cell Programming Advance
Scientists based at the University of Edinburgh’s MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine (CRM) and Anne Rowling Clinic have taken a vital step forward in understanding how cells from skin tissue can be reprogrammed to become stem cells. The study of how these cells – known as induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) – were reprogrammed has…