The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of a new treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS), a serious disease in which the immune system attacks the brain and spinal cord. MS can be progressive and severe and lead to significant disability. The study   more »

Rapid developments in stem cell research in recent years have provided a way for stem cell scientists to convert specialised cells, such as skin cells, into stem cells that can form numerous cell types of   more »

No person could be treated by his or her own genetically identical ESCs, because they are long gone. And, using ESCs from a genetically dissimilar embryo would not only impart risk for immune rejection and require immunosuppression but also would raise ethics    more »

Canadian researchers have found a way to control embryonic stem cells so they give rise to only one category of cell, a first step in medicine's quest to generate specific tissues to repair or replace parts of the body that are   more »

In recent years, stem cell researchers have become very adept at manipulating the fate of adult stem cells cultured in the lab. Now, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies achieved the same feat with adult neural stem cells still in place in   more »

"Allowing scientists to further explore this avenue of research may prove to be hugely beneficial not just to the 85,000 people with multiple sclerosis (MS), but to the hundreds of thousands of people living with debilitating, degenerative, and life limiting conditions   more »

After you complete your pre-transplant tests and procedures, you begin a process known as conditioning. During conditioning, you undergo chemotherapy and possibly radiation in order to:   more »

A stem cell transplant is the infusion of healthy stem cells into your body. A stem cell transplant may be necessary if your bone marrow stops working and doesn't produce enough healthy stem   more »

For the first time scientists have shown that brain stem cells are immune privileged, which means that they are invisible to a transplant recipient's immune system and do not trigger the immune system to reject them. These results, published in an issue of Stem Cells, indicate that using central nervous system   more »

Stem cells are cells that can renew themselves over long periods by division and have the capacity to develop into individual or different cell types with specific characteristics (differentiation). Under suitable conditions   more »

German lawmakers are debating whether the country should alter a 2002 law that imposes strict limits on the use of stem cells for medical research.   more »

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Repair from within – endogenous repair

 

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