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World Service,14 Oct 1999,23 mins

Inserting new Brain Cells to combat Disease

Science In Action

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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: Günter 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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