Caption: This neuron, created in the Su-Chun Zhang lab at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, 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.
Date: 2010
Image: courtesy Yan Liu and Su-Chun Zhang, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin–Madison
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Caption: Standing at center, Su-Chun Zhang, professor of neuroscience in the School of Medicine and Public Health, talks with his staff as they prepare stem-cell cultures in the Zhang's research lab at the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison on March 8, 2013. Pictured at right are postdoctoral students Yan Liu, background, and Lin Yao, foreground.
Date: March 8, 2013
Photo by: Jeff Miller
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Caption: Su-Chun Zhang, professor of neuroscience in the School of Medicine and Public Health, is pictured in his office at the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison on March 8, 2013. Zhang is an expert in the field of stem-cell research.
Date: March 8, 2013
Photo by: Jeff Miller
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