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> Subject: Re: Fetal transplant surgery > Date: Thursday, 17 April 1997 9:07 > > Get a copy of the Economist magazine March 22 1997 pg 99-101 > Two US doctors are growing skin cells changing them about and > then implant them in the brain > impressive results in rats Thanks for the info, Anne. The world is such a vast place, I can't keep up with all the research! :-) > good stuff eh! Full of promise, I reckon. Here in my home town, Orange, NSW, Australia (pop. 35,000), I am part of a PD epidemiology research group. We have very good connections with China, and the Departments of Gerontology and Epidemiology at Beijing General Hospital. China has (I think) 93,000,000 elderly citizens at present, and, with the "one-child" policy, the percentage of elderly will grow, and the number of carers will diminish. So China is very interested in any research that will lessen and/or alleviate neurological conditions. Incidentally, both Mao Tse Tung and Deng Xiaoping had PD. We keep beating our collective heads in Australia against a wall of prejudice, mistrust, politics, discrimination, jealousy, professional chauvinism, etc., but we keep on; maybe one day we will make a breach. Possibly because they view the problem more seriously, possibly because of a long tradition of alternative medicine, the Chinese are not as difficult to work with as our own politicians and bureaucrats! :-( Again, thanks. I will try to locate the article, and incorporate it in my research files. Jim