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Rayilyn Brown Director AZNPF Arizona Chapter National Parkinson Foundation [log in to unmask] Steve and Lindy, I wanted to let you know we successfully processed the recent cord blood sample (received Wednesday). This was a very special sample because we just purchased a new device that isolates and purifies the most powerful stem cells (CD34 stem cells) from cord blood. This was our first time using this device and as always running something for the first time can be difficult. We were in the lab till about 9PM last night but in the end we found we had isolated a large number of CD34 stem cells from the cord blood sample. Wešre now using a new cell culture solution that should cause the CD34 stem cells to grow and increase in number by about 200 fold. Again a new method but wešre hopeful this will provide us with a tremendously large number of these powerful stem cells for our experiments in changing stem cells into neurons. Again thanks for your help and please pass this information on to the donor couple because without their donation we would have had to delay these important experiments. Regards, Craig Craig Cady, Ph.D. Neurophysiology Research Laboratory Biology Department Bradley University 1501 W. Bradley Ave Peoria, IL 61625 Office: 309-677-3020 Lab: 309-677-3811 FAX: 309-677-3558 E-mail: [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn