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A side benefit?

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Holy smokes! I may have gotten a special advantage because of  a life-long problem I’ve had.

A little bit of context. I was born with a compromised respiratory system. Thanks to a mom who smoked non-stop from the time she was about 16 until she was almost 50. And, she only stopped then because I informed her she wouldn’t be coming to my wedding if she smoked another cigarette.

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Stem Cell Therapy for Parkinson’s Moves Closer

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We have been seeking the ‘Holy Grail’ to treat Parkinson’s Disease with stem cells for some time.  Given the restrictions on embryonic stem cells, research has been focused on integumentary and pluripotent stem cells.   A big step forward has been made by a group of researchers working together, all from different institution.  Drs. Lorenz Studer,  Sonja Kriks & Jae-Won Shim of the Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in NY, along with other researchers there, plus researchers at the Cornell Medical School, Northwestern Medical, and Rush Memorial (the last two in Chicago, IL) published the results of their study in Nature on 10 November 2011.

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