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...notion of repairing disease-damaged brains with replacement cells is among the most talked-about--and the most audacious--ideas in modern neuroscience. Until now, however, that audacity has been limited to illnesses that attack narrowly circumscribed parts of the brain: the substantia nigra, for example, whose destruction causes Parkinson's disease...
...problem, researchers injected the mice's brains with neuronal stem cells, a kind of parent cell that can generate any cell type in the central nervous system. These same cells have shown promise in the localized treatment of Parkinson's disease. In this case, though, the stem cells had to migrate throughout the mice's brains, then figure out what kinds of cells to turn into--a much more complicated process. Yet that's just what they did, fanning out and transforming themselves into oligodendrocytes, which started churning out myelin insulation. In 60% of cases, the tremors stopped almost completely...
...television viewers who saw him open the Atlanta Olympics in 1996. Outfitted in a white gym suit that eerily made him seem to glisten against a dark night sky, he approached the unlit saucer with his flaming torch, his free arm trembling visibly from the effects of Parkinson...
...TRAVELER(S)/STARTED] "Parkinson's Power Team" May 15, 1999 [MODE] Hiking, biking and kayaking [EXPECT(S) TO TRAVEL] 90 miles a day for 121 days [THE CAUSE? Parkinson's disease PREPARATION] Followed Olympic training schedule for six months
DIED. HENRY GRAHAM, 82, even-keeled former National Guard general who helped control some of the country's most explosive civil rights battles; of Parkinson's disease; in Birmingham, Ala. On June 11, 1963, Graham told George Wallace to step aside when the Alabama Governor stood in the entrance to a University of Alabama building, trying to prevent the school's desegregation (see Eulogy...