Cells from Aborted Babies Transplanted into Brains of Huntington’s Patients
by Hilary White
LONDON,
March 8, 2006

(LifeSiteNews.com) – Researchers in France have presented a long-term study of five Huntingdon’s patients who were injected with brain cells harvested from aborted foetuses in 1998. The scientists, reporting in The Lancet; Neurology, say that three of the patients have shown improvement in movement and brain function. Patients’ symptoms have continued, however and after a plateau, the deterioration has worsened.

Huntington’s Disease is a degenerative genetic neurological disorder. Huntington’s is an incurable and untreatable condition that slowly diminishes the affected individual's ability to walk, think, talk and reason. Death for Huntinton’s patients often results from complications such as choking, infection or heart failure.

The French research follows a number of similar experiments being done in the UK. The UK research began human trials in 2001. Story