# # # # Our ability to grow cells in culture (in petri dishes and flasks in laboratories) has been critical to our efforts to learn more about the biology of Parkinson’s and to screen for novel potential therapies. Recently, researchers have employed ... read moreSource: The Science of Parkinson’s diseasePublished on 2020-11-25By Simon
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