Multiple Sclerosis Treated With Adult Stem Cells
A man who had suffered from multiple sclerosis for nearly a decade says that his symptoms are gone after being treated with adult stem cell therapy.
February 27, 2008
A man who had suffered from multiple sclerosis for nearly a decade says that his symptoms are gone after being treated with adult stem cell therapy.
The same gene that stimulates stem cells to manufacture blood cells is also involved in protecting against infection.
Once again, embryonic stem cells have been found to cause the formation of tumors in laboratory animals, thereby bringing into serious question the safety and efficacy of embryonic stem cells as a possible therapy in the treatment of human disease.
Once again, adult stem cells trump embryonic stem cells not only for scientific logic but also for financial common sense.
As the result of a recent discovery at Harvard, adult human cells may be safely reprogrammed into cells that behave as stem cells.
In the second half of a two-part series, CBS News correspondent Wyatt Andrews interviews doctors who are working to regrow missing limbs in American servicemen and women who have been wounded in Iraq.
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