Precision with stem cells a step forward for treating multiple sclerosis, other diseases
Thursday, October 13, 2011 - 12:30
in Health & Medicine
Scientists have improved upon previous efforts to pluck out just the right stem cells to address the brain problem at the core of multiple sclerosis and a large number of rare, fatal children's diseases. Details of how scientists isolated and directed stem cells from the human brain to become oligodendrocytes - the type of brain cell that makes myelin - were recently published.