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PROMISING RESULTS. "Studies in animal models of Parkinson's disease (PD) and Huntington's disease (HD) show that transplanted human neural precursor cells survive and differentiate into neurons and glia." http://www.pnas.org/content/101/32/11839.full View in LinkedIn

ENHANCED ACUITY. “Confirming these sensory enhancements in a different form of the condition, Banissy and colleagues demonstrated that mirror-touch synesthetes (individuals who experience tactile sensations on their own body while watching someone else being touched) possess increased tactile acuity.” https://lnkd.in/dfc7eju View in LinkedIn

MANY TOOLS AVAILABLE. "It is likely that increasingly sophisticated uses of human/animal chimeric models will be developed through advances in genetic manipulation, cell delivery, and in vivo imaging." https://lnkd.in/d3JtYvG View in LinkedIn

INCREASED PROCESSING. “These early perceptual effects suggest that synesthesia is associated with increased processing of color information; however, it remains possible that these differences in color processing are not due to synesthesia itself but are merely caused by synesthetes' excessive experience with colors.” https://lnkd.in/dfc7eju View in LinkedIn

NEW FRONTIER. "Recent studies have found a wide range of therapeutic applications for human amniotic membrane and amniotic fluid stem cells. Among these are the promotion of reepithelization, the modulation of cell differentiation and formation of new vessels, and a reduction in fibrosis, apoptosis, and inflammation." https://lnkd.in/dfg6Ja2 View in LinkedIn

ENHANCED DISCRIMINATION. “Number-color synesthetes are also more sensitive at discriminating very similar colors.” https://lnkd.in/dfc7eju View in LinkedIn

IMPROVED FUNCTION. "Umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cell transplantation significantly improves neurological function in patients with sequelae of traumatic brain injury." https://lnkd.in/dhFF73Y View in LinkedIn

VIGOROUS GROWTH. "Pyramidal Neurons Derived from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Integrate Efficiently into Mouse Brain Circuits In Vivo. After grafting in the mouse neonatal brain, human ESC-derived cortical neurons displayed robust and specific patterns of axonal projections and dendritic outgrowth and integrated functionally with the host synaptic circuitry, after a human-specific timeline." https://lnkd.in/dRiWU7S View in LinkedIn

FEWER SYMPTOMS. "Functional studies with such human cells have not been reported in these animal models, but primary fetal human tissue is known to ameliorate the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.” http://www.pnas.org/content/101/32/11839.full View in LinkedIn