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Brain cell research offers hope for NEW YORK, Feb 28 (Reuters Health) -- Taking cells from a region of the brain known as the hippocampus, an international team of researchers have grown functional brain cells in lab cultures. The findings may have profound implic ....

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.... Goldman noted that the use of drugs to stimulate proliferation of new brain cells will probably result in a more successful strategy than attempting to grow the cells outside the body and then placing them back into the brains of patients, as some scientists have suggested. Goldman, of Cornell University Medical College in New York, and colleagues surgically extracted brain cells from the hippocampus of eight living male patients, ranging in age from 5 to 63 years, while they underwent surgery for another reason. The investigators isolated stem cells from the brain tissue. The stem cells were then grown in culture a ....