11.   All the mice became ill with the degenerative brain disease.

12.   BSE, a brain disease recently found among British cattle, has been linked to a rare, but fatal, brain disease in humans.

13.   But does causing changes in the brain qualify addiction as a brain disease?

14.   C.J. is one of a few hundred people worldwide born with a little-known brain disease called hypothalamic hamartoma, or HH.

15.   Consumption of meat from infected animals has been tentatively linked to a fatal brain disease in humans.

16.   Creating gene-based cures for cancer, brain diseases and numerous other illnesses hinges on this computer work.

17.   Cystic fibrosis and the degenerative brain diseases are possible early targets for research involving genetically modified primates because the current animal models are so flawed.

18.   Earlier this year, scientists suggested a possible link between eating beef infected with BSE and contracting a human brain disease.

19.   Ethicists see no problem in trying to treat memory deficits in patients with brain diseases, which would be no different from any other medical intervention.

20.   Freed said the ease and simplicity of the operation would make it a useful technique for any inborn brain disease that stem cells might help in treating.