French surgeons led by Marc Peschanski yesterday published results on the Lancet medical journal website <www.thelancet.com> of their promising research into the regeneration of damaged parts of the brain through grafts of human foetal tissue. Three of five patients experienced marked improvements improvements in their lives, though much wider testing will be necessary before the cell replacement treatment is available.
I have been researching HD for a newspaper article and came across this information in today's Guardian (UK). Please tell me if you know any more about it and its likelihood of success in the future.

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James Gooder
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NewsPaper article: England
London---Preliminary research offers hope that transplanting fetal cells into the brains of people with Huntington's disease might one day help them to walk,talk and reason normally.
Although drugs can partly alleviate some sympthoms of Huntington's,such as psychosis and ivoluntary movements of the face and body,there is no treatment. The disease is a progressive genetic disorder of the central nervous caused by degeneration of nerve cells in the brain.
Hundreds of thousands of people around the world suffer from it. Sympthoms usually appear between ages 3 and 40 and the sisease is fatal within 10 to 15 years.
But French reearchers have provided the first evidence that when healthy cells from part of the brain damaged in Huntington's are extracted from the fetus and injected into the brains of people with the illness,the grafts can survive and induce measurable improvements.
The study,led by Dr. Marc Peschanski of the French Institute of Health and Medical Research,was published Wednesday on the web site of The Lancet medical journal.
*On the Net: Lancet site(www.thelancet.com/)
From the Vero Press Journel,thursday the 30th

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