Cell therapy for multiple sclerosis patients: Closer than ever?
Sunday, July 27, 2014 - 08:30
in Health & Medicine
For the first time, scientists generated induced pluripotent stem cells lines from skin samples of patients with primary progressive multiple sclerosis and further, they developed an accelerated protocol to induce these stem cells into becoming oligodendrocytes, the myelin-forming cells of the central nervous system implicated in multiple sclerosis and many other diseases.