X-Message-Number: 17280 From: "Bryan Hall" <> Subject: Alzheimer's researchers revive "dead" brain cells Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 08:14:10 -0700 The memory and learning problems experienced by Alzheimer's patients might one day be reversible by re-awakening key brain cells scientists thought had died, say US researchers. The team, led by Jonathan Cooper, now at King's College London, and William Mobley at the University of Stanford, say they can arouse apparently dead cells with the help of a chemical messenger called nerve growth factor, or NGF. Read full story at: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991150 -Bryan Hall Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=17280