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Hi all, I wonder if the PD is repairable, both in the marines and army personnel given vaccinations, as well as those who were toxically exposed in the Gulf war end up with genetic damage. Perhaps there is a gene or genes which once damaged, must be repaired by viral genetic therapy, in order to restore dopaminergic neurons to health once again. I lean strongly towards the idea that the substantia nigra cells are not dead, but damaged, in PD, and can heal. The most dramatic example is the GDNF-treated monkey which Michael and all the rest of us saw in the scientists' briefing at the Forum in Washington. On 7/27, in the plane on the way home from my singing performance in San Jose, an Australian researcher seated next to me was headed to Harvard, to give a seminar on the discovery of a PD-related gene on chromosome 17, which she called the "tau" gene. As we circled Providence, RI, talking about figuring out how to end PD, we saw the sun set three times, and then glided down to Logan airport. kept thinking, the answer is genetic, the answer is genetic, the damage can be repaired, we can be POP's (people overcoming PD) instead of PWP's !! I recommend investing NIH dollars in the careful examination of identifying virally-damaged genes that might be repaired, to reverse PD and restore PWP's to health. Ivan Suzman :-) 50/39/36