{"id":88194,"date":"2019-02-26T16:45:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T00:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/baby-bio-for-brain-cells-trial-halted-despite-parkinsons-patients-seeing-miracle-results"},"modified":"2019-02-26T16:45:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T00:45:27","slug":"baby-bio-for-brain-cells-trial-halted-despite-parkinsons-patients-seeing-miracle-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/baby-bio-for-brain-cells-trial-halted-despite-parkinsons-patients-seeing-miracle-results","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Baby Bio\u2019 for brain cells trial halted despite Parkinson\u2019s patients seeing \u2018miracle\u2019 results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/baby-bio-for-brain-cells-trial-halted-despite-parkinsons-patients-seeing-miracle-results.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Parkinson\u2019s patients treated with a groundbreaking new therapy to regrow their brain cells have criticised a decision by regulators to stop trials as \u2018sinful.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>In the biggest surgical trial ever for the disease, British patients had holes drilled into the heads and special ports implanted so that a naturally occurring protein could be infused directly into the brain over nine months.<\/p>\n<p>Described as \u2018Baby Bio\u2019 for brain cells, the Glial Cell Line Derived Neurotrophic Factor (GDNF) encourages the growth of cells that produce dopamine, a crucial hormone needed for movement, which vanishes in Parkinson\u2019s patients.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2019\/02\/27\/baby-bio-brain-cells-trial-halted-despite-parkinsons-patients\/\">https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2019\/02\/27\/baby-bio-brai...-patients\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parkinson\u2019s patients treated with a groundbreaking new therapy to regrow their brain cells have criticised a decision by regulators to stop trials as \u2018sinful.\u2019 In the biggest surgical trial ever for the disease, British patients had holes drilled into the heads and special ports implanted so that a naturally occurring protein could be infused directly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}