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Doctors make first attempt at implanting modified tissue into brain of Alzheimer's patient to restore cognitive functioning
A group of doctors at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine recently spent 11 hours surgically implanting genetically modified tissue into the brain of an Alzheimer's patient.
The 11-hour surgery was performed on a 60-year-old former Oregon schoolteacher in the early stages of the disease and marked the first phase of an experimental gene therapy procedure for Alzheimer's disease.
UCSD neurologist Mark H. Tuszynski, M.D., Ph.D., who led the study, said researchers are using gene therapy to deliver a natural brain-survival molecule, called nerve growth factor, to the dying cells in the brains of Alzheimer's patients.
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