Saturday, October 6, 2007
Brain Augmentation
The following cartoon strip is from "Pearls Before Swine", October 6th, 2007. Brain augmentation - I wonder if they use pigs brains for that? In 1997, my husband, Jay, and I traveled to Chicago for a Parkinson's disease symposium. Researchers had just begun a study examining the implantation of pig brain cells into the brains of people with Parkinson's. DBS (Deep Brain Surgery) was still very experimental and just vaguely known about. There was a Q&A session and one older lady asked the esteemed...
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