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09-15-2002, 07:15 PM
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Stem Cell Breakthrough
I know this doesn't have much to do with Family Ties directly, but I thought I'd post this here anyway in case people were interested.
Stem-cell breakthrough AUSTRALIAN scientists may be just a year away from clinical trials of a treatment for Parkinson's Disease using adult stem cells. In an Australian first, researchers at Melbourne's Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute have successfully grown adult neural stem cells over the last three weeks. The cells were grown from a piece of brain tissue taken from an epilepsy patient. Association Professor Paul Simmons and his Melbourne research team hope to finish the pre-clinical trials of the process within the next year. The treatment they hope to trial involves growing brain cells from tissue taken from patients with Parkinson's disease from site: http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4280492^1702,00.html |
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