Promising Stem Cell Research for MS

CHICAGO, USA— On January 30, researchers at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago published promising stem cell research results in patients with Multiple Sclerosis in the online The Lancet Neurology Journal. The study was small, involving only 21 patients with relapsing-remitting type MS. Autologous stem cells—cells from the patient’s own body—were used. At a three-year follow up, 81 % of study participants had improvement in their MS symptoms, and none had deterioration.

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Stem Cell Transplantation Shows Benefit in MS http://www.modernmedicine.com/modernmedicine/Pathology/Stem-Cell-Transplantation-Shows-Benefit-in-MS/ArticleNewsFeed/Article/detail/578836?contextCategoryId=40127

Stem Cells Could Be Used to Treat MS, Study Says http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/health/2009/feb/Stem-Cells-Could-Be-Used-to-Treat-MS--Study-Says.html

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Stem Cell Basics http://stemcells.nih.gov/ ; http://stemcells.nih.gov/info/basics/

PBS Nova Science Now: Stem Cells http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3209/04.html