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From: "Jim Slattery" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 02:19:16 -0400 Subject: Re: Interesting New Approach > From: Ron Reiner <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Interesting New Approach > Brain Function Restored Because of Testes Cells > > Source: Business Wire > > SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE) via Individual Inc. -- A new > technology that involves implanting cells from the testes into the brain may > help restore brain function in victims of Parkinson's disease, stroke, Lou > Gehrig's disease, traumatic brain injury and other brain disorders. > I have a "bee in my bonnet". Putting a number of otherwise unrelated items together, and using some "lateral thinking", I offer this for what it is worth: 1. Some American research on treating severe burns with coverings of artificially grown skin cloned from babies foreskins. The clone "seed", being relatively non-allergenic, was not rejected until the victims own skin cells had re-grown "pushing" the "bandage" off. 2. The foetal tissue controversy. 3. An item that dopamine-producing cells had been found in the small (?) intestine. 4. Some partly-recollected item about cloning pig cells for human body-part replacement. Anyone like to put that all together and produce a couple of hundred culture trays worth of replacement cells for "parkies"? Well, ya gotta keep hoping. :-) Jim