Dr. Ira Black

[paulsask]

Greetings

Dr. Young - Do you have current information regarding the work of Ira Black ?
I did a search only to come up with that stem cell/bone marrow story from August 2000.
Chris Reeve was quite excited, quoting the finding the equivelant of "inventing the wheel".
I remember the media hype over this discovery. The article states "researchers have successfully transformed stem cxells from bone marrow into functioning brain cells in BOTH rats and humans".
Sounded good - no rejection, not sure about procedure though.
Anyway, I haven't heard anything from him in 18 months. He's located in N.J and thought you may correspond with him fairly regularly.
What (if any) success since August 2000, has he had with these cells in humans ?
The cells transformed into functioning brain cells, but what types. Do we not need to see functioning neurons, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes ?
Please help me out here, as you so graciously do always.

Later......Paul