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Biden-created agency to swap aging brains with young lab-grown tissue

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Geneticist Dr Jean Hébert has been awarded a $110 million NIH grant to develop a surgery that replaces damaged or aging brain cells with tissue from human embryos.

The procedure involves repairing the ailing brain tissue with 'neuronal' stem cells grown in labs.

Stem cells are 'blank, shape-shifting' cells that can transform into cells from any part of the body.

But others in the field believe the surgery is too severe for common use, and members of the public have called it 'diabolical'.

'If it can work, forget aging,' one medical doctor and biotech entrepreneur, Dr Justin Rebo , said. 'It would be useful for all kinds of neurodegenerative disease.'.

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