Brain tissue transplants
Brain grafts have moved out of the realms of science fiction into reality in recent months, at least in the laboratory. A joint American and British team announced a successful series of brain tissue transplants in mice, correcting a deficiency in one of the pituitary sex hormones produced in'the brain. The aim of the research is not to transfer areas of thoughts or personality, but is directed specifically at correcting deficiencies of particular substances secreted in the brain. Other work in Sweden has seen the transplant of one part of a human brain into another region of that same brain. One of the American researchers will talk on “8.8. C. Science Magazine” (Concert programme, 7.30 tonight) about current experiments and the prospects of using brain grafts in human medicine.
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Press, 17 November 1982, Page 15
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