1.   But Getty developed a nearly fatal case of pneumonia two months before the baboon experiment.

2.   Crucial to the baboon bone marrow experiment is the discovery by Dr. Suzanne T. Ildstad of Pittsburgh of a special type of white cell known as a facilitator cell.

3.   Health authorities in the United States have given approval for the baboon experiment to begin within the next few weeks, subject to certain safety criteria.

4.   In the meantime, she applied for a grant from the National Institutes of Health to do the baboon marrow experiment, but was turned down.

5.   Shortly after approving the baboon marrow experiment, the FDA gave the go-ahead for another cross-species transplant at Duke University Medical Center.

6.   Some scientists feared that the baboon experiment might introduce a primate virus into Getty that he might then unwittingly transmit to others.

7.   The baboon marrow experiment was reviewed and approved by an FDA panel in August and by the Institutional Review Board at the University of California in San Francisco.