People suffering from Parkinson's disease don't have enough dopamine because some of the brain cells have died leading to debilitating symptoms like difficult in walking and moving.
Scientists are planning to replace the damaged dopamine neurone by injecting new ones into human brain but international team of researchers used different method by using a cocktail of small molecules to reprogramme cells in the brain.
Sample of human astrocytes was mixed with the cocktail in the laboratory, new cells that look like dopamine neurons was formed.
The cocktail was tested on sick mice, it reprogramme their brain cells and decrease symptoms of Parkinson's disease in mice.
An expert in neuroscience said this good result in mice can work in human brain and become therapy for Parkinson's disease.
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