Archive for November, 2024

Alan Guth anecdote in re: Remembering Dr. Murray Gell-Mann

Alan Guth Cosmologist; Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics, MIT; Inaugural Recipient, Fundamental Physics Prize; Author, The Inflationary Universe [Alan Guth (with help from Jenny Guth):] One of my favorite stories about Murray Gell-Mann comes from my daughter, Jenny Guth, who in the summer of 2006 was a student of theoretical neuroscience, attending a summer program for undergraduates […]

Surgical Implantation of Autologous Dopamine Neuron Progenitor Cells (DANPCs) Into the Putamen of Patients with Parkinson’s Disease

Parkinson’s Disease Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer’s disease. Performed market assessment for some of the latest (2024) treatments for PD. (1) Produodopa—a new treatment approved by NICE for people with PD who experience movement-related symptoms. It’s delivered continuously by a small pump that’s inserted under the skin. (2) […]