X-Message-Number: 5189
From:  (Anders Sandberg)
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics

Subject: Re: news story: retarded girl gets partial brain transplant; improves 
brain function
Date: 15 Nov 1995 17:28:34 GMT
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References: <4804s4$>

I seriously doubt an actual transplant of tissue will
work today, since you have to make it reconnect nicely. 

But there might be other methods. I found a reference
in "Recombinant DNA" by Watson about a line of
immortalized neural precursors with temperature-dependent
states, when injected into mice they began differentiating
and apparently could improve recovery from brain damage.
I haven't read the article, but here is the reference:

"Immortalized Retinal Neurons Derived from SV40 T-antigen
Inducing Tumors in Transgenic Mice", Hamming J. P., E. E
Baerger, R. R. Behringer, R. L. Brinster, R. D. Palmiter,
A. Messing, Neuron 4: 775-772 1990

Maybe one could do something like this to help repair
brain damage?
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