New Scientist News - Pig cell implants in Huntington's trial: "Pig cell implants in Huntington's trial
* 11 August 2005
* From New Scientist Print Edition
* Gaia Vince
PIG brain cells could be implanted into human brains by the start of next year if trials of a pioneering treatment for Huntington's disease are approved in the US.
Similar tests on primates have proved 'astonishingly successful' in treating the degenerative brain disease, according to researchers who carried out the work at Living Cell Technologies (LCT) in Auckland, New Zealand."
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