40 years of putting new neurons in the CNS: can AI speed up cell therapy?
patrickmineault · x · 2026-10-30
Patrick Mineault published a new piece reviewing 40 years of attempts to put new neurons into the CNS: one Parkinson's cell therapy is conditionally approved in Japan, with more in the pipeline. He asks what the upper bound of this modality is, why it has taken so long, and whether AI could accelerate it.
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