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Boy has unprecedented surgery
Brain operation - Purified stem cells are implanted into the 6-year-old's head to fight a rare disease
Monday, December 11, 2006
ANDY DWORKIN
Daniel Kerner, a California boy who received the first known implant of purified brain stem cells last month at Oregon Health & Science University, is about to leave the hospital and head home.
"Daniel is doing exceptionally well," his father, Marcus Kerner, an assistant U.S. attorney in Trabuco Canyon, Calif., said Sunday in a phone interview. "We're very, very excited about what is going on with our son."
The 6-year-old has Batten disease, a deadly, progressive illness in which the body cannot make an enzyme that removes toxins from the brain. That buildup of toxins steadily damages the brain, causing blindness, problems moving and thinking and seizures. Continue Story
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