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In this magnified image from the PNAS paper, a nerve cell
      derived from artificially created stem cells is shown after its
      integration in an animal brain. spotlight: Stem Cells & Parkinson's. A team including MIT researchers has demonstrated for the first time that artificially created stem cells can be used to treat symptoms of Parkinson's disease in rats. The work, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could lead to successful treatments for human patients of Parkinson's, the degenerative neurological disorder.
 
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