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How animals can cure our ailments
Pigs
Used in research to battle: Parkinson's disease
The cuddly farmyard animals can help battle Parkinson's disease as well as bringing home the bacon.
Sufferers had cells from the brains of pigs transplanted into their own at the McLean hospital in Massachusetts. Eight out of nine patients showed an improvement.
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