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May 27, 2005

Multiple Sclerosis Researchers Use Adult Stem Cells

Multiple sclerosis researchers are investigating how hormones and proteins can be used to trigger the body's own stem cells into producing myelin, the protective sheath around nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that is destroyed by the disease. [more].

"It's really taking a different view of how you can use stem cells. Rather than growing them and transplanting them, we're actually trying to get them to be part of a self-repair, an intrinsic repair," said Samuel Weiss, director of the university's Hotchkiss Brain Institute.

This is excellent work and does not involve the killing of another human, as in embryonic stem cell research, to benefit those suffering from multiple sclerosis.

Posted by Blogorithm at May 27, 2005 12:31 PM

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