Growning Brain Cells - Dr Charmaine Lang

One of the challenges facing so much Parkinson's research is that it is incredibly difficult to study the dopamine producing cells which are failing, because they are buried deep within the brain.

To overcome this problem Dr Charmaine Lang from the University of Oxford harvests skin cells from people with Parkinson's in order to grow them into brain cells in the laboratory and study them. She hopes to be able to identify a process which can protect them from damage, ultimately providing vital information towards the development of new treatments.