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cross posted from the MGH PD webforum ---------------------------------------------------------- Author: GregM Topic: DayLate/Dollar Short Dept/AP Prints Retraction/Stem Cells Not Used posted: March 10, 2001 07:13 PM ---------------------------------------------------------- From Greggold in ALS: By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 4:02 p.m. ET In a story about experimental brain cell implants to treat Parkinson's disease, The Associated Press reported erroneously on March 7 that researchers had used fetal stem cells, which are master cells that can develop into many different kinds of cells. Actually, the researchers used fully developed fetal brain cells. ------------------------- I guess if you are going to get it wrong on a story that falsely dashed many people's hopes, you might as well get the whole thing wrong. And they did. IP: Logged ---------------------------------------------------------- These forums are owned and maintained by the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital Webspinner/Community Manager - John Lester http://neuro-mancer.mgh.harvard.edu/ubb/Forum71/HTML/003794.html janet paterson, an akinetic rigid subtype parkie 53 now / 44 dx cd / 43 onset cd / 41 dx pd / 37 onset pd TEL: 613 256 8340 SMAIL: PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada EMAIL: [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/