"No other form of gambling manipulates the human mind as beautifully as these machines," concludes Petry, who has studied gambling treatments since 1998.

"We're not trying to make people mad," he said, noting that the next step was for the scientists to use the cells to study treatments.

Dr. Fost said the regulations would liberate researchers to study treatments that were desperately needed.

Scientists are studying several new treatments for stroke that could both elongate that treatment window and break up the clot faster.

Clinical trials are studying new treatments for high-risk childhood pineoblastoma, including combinations of chemotherapy and radiation therapy.

Then, he said, he could use the animals to study new treatments for humans with the disease.

Dr. Nadelman's group will get $32,627 of the $160,100 to study antibiotic treatments.

Researchers are studying several possible treatments for AMD.

He is studying treatments for retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited condition that causes blindness.

His work studying treatments for Epilepsy has been published in many journals and presented at conferences all over the world.