Multiple Sclerosis Patient Improves With Autologous Adult Stem Cell Transplant
A 24-year-old Canadian with MS shows significant improvement after being rescued with her own adult stem cells following chemotherapy treatment.
March 17, 2008
A 24-year-old Canadian with MS shows significant improvement after being rescued with her own adult stem cells following chemotherapy treatment.
In an unusually amiable mixture of politics and science, researchers who are working with adult stem cells, and patients who have been successfully treated with adult stem cell therapy, appeared before members of Congress.
Stem cell therapy is currently being developed for the regeneration of tissue and, perhaps someday, even of limbs, in the treatment of injuries in Iraq war veterans.
Researchers in France have reported a partial yet significant recovery from Parkinson’s disease in rats that were treated with adult mesenchymal stem cells.
Researchers in Japan have regenerated the jawbone of adult dogs using stem cells from the teeth of puppies.
Researchers at UCLA believe they have discovered a placental location for the origin of the stem cells that produce all the types of blood cells.