Multiple sclerosis 'reversed' with stem cell therapy

exceprt:

They removed stem cells from the patients' bone marrow, and then used chemicals to destroy all existing immune cells in the body, before re-injecting the stem cells. These then developed into naïve immune cells that do not see myelin as alien, and hence do not attack it.

Three years later, 17 of the patients had improved by at least one point on a standard disability scale, while none of the patients had deteriorated.



http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16509-multiple-sclerosis-reversed-with-stem-cell-therapy-.html

Sweet

robert wrote:

exceprt:

They removed stem cells from the patients' bone marrow, and then used chemicals to destroy all existing immune cells in the body, before re-injecting the stem cells. These then developed into naïve immune cells that do not see myelin as alien, and hence do not attack it.

Three years later, 17 of the patients had improved by at least one point on a standard disability scale, while none of the patients had deteriorated.



http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16509-multiple-sclerosis-reversed-with-stem-cell-therapy-.html

Sounds promising. Medicine is advancing rapidly. They are also working on growing brand new organs with some success from a patients own cells so there's zero rejection. Wish they'd hurry up and perfect that at a price that would allow more than just Oprah's hyper-inflated ego to survive.