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but in the ball park... http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/health/story.html?s=z/reuters/980601/health/stories/hunting10_1.html Monday June 1, 1998 NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Transplants of brain tissue improved the symptoms of Huntington's disease in monkeys, researchers report. The study, published in the June issue of Nature Medicine, is called "a significant advance towards a therapy for Huntington's disease," by the editors of the journal. Huntington's disease, an inherited neurological disease that results from the loss of brain cells, causes involuntary movements, mental and behavioral deterioration, and leads to death within 15 years of diagnosis. The disease usually strikes people around age 40, and there is currently no effective treatment for the disease. <snip> -- Judith Richards, London, Ontario, Canada [log in to unmask]