Human neural stem cells study offers new hope for children with fatal brain diseases

Wednesday, October 10, 2012 - 17:00 in Health & Medicine

A. This is a high-field MRI scan of the entire brain of a mouse that received the transplant of human stem cells Physician-scientists at Oregon Health & Science University Doernbecher Children's Hospital have demonstrated for the first time that banked human neural stem cells — HuCNS-SCs, a proprietary product of StemCells Inc. — can survive and make functional myelin in mice with severe symptoms of myelin loss. Myelin is the critical fatty insulation, or sheath, surrounding new nerve fibers and is essential for normal brain function.

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