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Inserting new Brain Cells to combat Disease

Will adding new brain cells be the answer to Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's?

Neural transplantation scientists assess outcomes of inserting new brain cells into patients with diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. Disaster averted in the final stage of Galileo's 10-year space mission to investigate Jupiter, looking at the surface of the planet's moon, Io. The latest Nobel Prize winners and their achievements: G眉nter Blobel (Medicine); Gerard 't Hooft, Martinus J. G. Veltman (Physics); Ahmed Zewail (Chemistry). A new tree to help a growing population of Indonesian tribesmen.

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大象传媒 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project

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