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Fetal cells are unlike any other tissues. "There's something magic about them," says California neurosurgeon Robert Iacono. In experiments with rats, | mice and monkeys, scientists have discovered that fetal cells are effective in treating a wide range of stubborn conditions. Transplanted cells have cured diabetes and restored some sight in animals. The cells have repaired some spinal-cord injuries, allowing injured rats to run at normal speed. Implants in the brain have improved memory and learning. The work has led scientists to speculate that the cells can be used to treat epilepsy, combat leukemia and stop such degenerative diseases...
...Frances K. Conley, a neurosurgeon who has spent her entire career at Stanford Medical School, spoke about problems of sexual harassment at a gathering of about 30 people sponsored by the Women's Studies Department...
...between nature and nurture more apparent than in the unique human abilities of speaking, reading and writing. No one is born knowing French, for example; it must be learned, changing the brain forever. Even so, language skills are linked to specific cerebral centers. In a remarkable series of experiments, neurosurgeon George Ojemann of the University of Washington has produced scores of detailed maps of people's individual language centers...
Memory is a complicated physiological phenomenon that is only slowly being deciphered. "Everything we are is based on what we are taught, experience and remember," says neurosurgeon Howard Eisenberg of the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. "Yet there's no universally accepted theory of how memory works." Some activities, like remembering a number looked up in the telephone directory, are retained for only a brief time. Soon after you dial the number, the brain discards this "working memory...
Though Anita Hill brought the issue into the spotlight, she was preceded by another highly visible, impressive and articulate woman who helped shape the national debate. When Stanford University neurosurgeon Frances Conley resigned her post this year to protest the behavior of her male colleagues, she forced men and women to weigh the costs of taking complaints public. Conley made a useful lightning rod, since by her demeanor she dispelled the notion of accusers as crybabies or oversensitive types who are not sophisticated enough to cope with office banter. She announced last month that she would rejoin the faculty, having...