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World Service,06 Aug 2002,23 mins

Saving the brain - part two

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The programme exlpores cell replacement therapy to help replace dying brain cells. Dying cells in a brain are replaced with healthy cells from a donor brain. The replacement cells come from the brain of a foetus terminated in early pregnancy.

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