The Nation - News from July 5, 1985
Scientists at Emory University in Atlanta have succeeded for the first time in reversing Parkinson’s disease symptoms in higher animals by implanting cells from monkey fetuses into the brains of afflicted monkeys. “We’re not calling the transplant procedure a cure for Parkinson’s disease,” cautioned Dr. Frederick A. King, director of Emory’s Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, where the experiments were performed. “These studies are an exciting beginning,” he said. However, it would be years before such a procedure could be contemplated for humans.
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