I am interested. It sounds like the right approach to me. I also read in the UPF news letter someone is suggesting growth hormones to encourage the remaining neurons in the substantia nigra to grow and put out more. ---Milo At 11:54 AM 11/8/95 -0800, you wrote: >(news item) Science 27 Oct 1995;572: >The Neurosciences Institute, privately funded and staffed with 32 hand-picked >full-time researchers, opened its brand-new home near La Jolla, California, >on October 15. Headed by Nobel Laureate Gerald Edelman, NSI will work on some >problems germane to PD, for example the mechanism, genetic or environmental, >which guides reproducing neurons to develop progeny that make or use >dopamine. > >(I'm no expert, and unsure anyone here is interested in this scientific >prospect for an eventual PD cure, but if asked I'll be glad to parade my >meager knowledge.) > >Cheers, Joe > > >J. R. Bruman (818) 789-3694 >3527 Cody Road >Sherman Oaks CA 91403 > > Milo V. Anderson, Ph.D. Box 417 Angwin, CA 94508 voice 707 965 2508 fax 707 965 3148 e-mail [log in to unmask]