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Urine May Benefit Brain Health

By: Big 2 News Staff
Updated: December 11, 2012
China researchers have found a way to transform human urine into brain cells.

They were able to re-program kidney cells harvested from urine samples into immature of brain cells, called neutral progenitor cells.

The technique could be used to treat brain-attacking diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

The research appears in the journal Nature Methods.

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