Tissue Bank Also Sent Maine Brains to Lab ; a Maryland Research Lab Got Eight Brains in the Late '90s From the Bank, Where Matthew Cyr Then Worked.
Portland Press Herald › January 13, 2005
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The Stanley Medical Research Institute, the Maryland lab that collected 99 brains under a suspended Maine program, previously received eight brains from Maine through a nonprofit tissue bank.
Tissue Banks International was paid a $1,000 service fee for each of eight brain shipments to the Bethesda, Md.-based Stanley Institute in the late 1990s, said Gerald Cole, the tissue bank's president and chief executive officer.See the full content of this document
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Tissue Bank Also Sent Maine Brains to Lab ; a Maryland Research Lab Got Eight Brains in the Late '90s From the Bank, Where Matthew Cyr Then Worked.
Matthew Cyr, the former Maine funeral inspector whose efforts to solicit brain donations are now at the center of federal and state investigations, was involved in seeking consent in one or two of the eight cases, Cole said.
Cole's disclosures - made in a ...See the full content of this document
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