Dr Rene Drucker,photographed in his office at UNAM,Mexico City. In september 1987,Drucker collaborated with a team of Mexican surgeons at the La Raza Medical Centre to transplant brain tissue from an aborted human foetus into the brain of a person suffering from Parkinson's disease. The Mexicans have subsequently claimed an improvement in the symptoms of the disease. Victims of Parkinson's disease have great difficulty in controlling their movement,due to a failure in the production of dopamine,a chemical required by one of the brain's motor control centres. Grafting of dopamine-containing foetal cells is intended to restore the deficiency | |
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