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Interested in learning about the science and how it can help change lives? Watch this video to see how scientists from Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and other top institutions have recently begun to use tools such as stem cells and genetic modification to repair and regenerate brain tissue in their laboratories. For the first time in history, leading researchers see opportunity to treat the underlying causes, not just the symptoms, of these devastating conditions. |
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To Repair a Brain
How One Disabled Kid Sent His Mom on a Cell Hunt
By Isabelle T. Walker, Santa Barbara Independent
Palmer Richmond may lack the gift of speech, but he’s got the art of making people laugh down pat. And don’t imagine that his disability keeps him from putting one over on his mother from time to time either. Take the morning she went to prepare him for a session with a therapist and found him slumped and lethargic in his chair. Thinking he was sick, when the therapist arrived, his mom sent her away. Meanwhile, back in his room, Palmer was bright-eyed and bushy-tailed once again.
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