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James F. Slattery wrote:
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> Two of the problems with foetal transplants are supply of material, and
> ethical considerations about source.  Both of these were major obstacles to
> the transplantation of human foetal cells from aborted foetuses.
>
> The ethical problems with pig foetal material are not as emotive as with
> human material, but animal rights activists, etc., protest their use.
>
> It seems to me that if the material could be successfully cloned, both of
> these considerations would abate.
>
> Easier said than done, I know, but I recall an experiment where cells from
> human infant penile material, obtained as a result of circumcision, were
> successfully cloned, grown in sheets on agar(?) plates, and used as graft
> material for extensive skin burning.
>
> I also know that skin material is nowhere near as complicated as brain
> material, and that rejection is a problem.
>
> Then why bother saying this?  Because there are many brilliant medical
> researchers in the world, but not many cross-discipline lateral-thinkers,
> and I hope that this might come to the attention of the few there are.  :-)
>
> If cloning were successful, but rejection proved too big a problem, perhaps
> the PWD's own remaining substantia nigra could be sampled, and cloned for
> that person, especially in the earlier stages.
>
> Just a thought, from someone hovering on the edge of desperation.
>
> Jim

Jim,you presented very good ideias and I hope there will have ressonance
in the list and get a action from everybody to reach the press and the
public opinion and finally the legilators of all countries,

Best wishes

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