This is a very promising, albeit early-stage (that poor mouse again!),
stem-cell study that shows merely injecting adult stem cells into a
mouse affected by a model of MS (which we've seen time and time again
is not exactly similar to human MS, but often serves as "the next best
thing" for lab settings) causes the stem cells to seek out and repair
brain inflammation autonomously. They apparently accomplished this task
by killing off inflammatory cells, and disease recovery took from 4-8
weeks.
The takeaways here are that adult stem cells can be
grown in a dish, injected anywhere convenient, and they will
automatically seek out and repair MS-like brain damage. Exciting!
"There
is a therapeutic potential in this discovery, but it's still too early
to talk about a cure for humans," head of research Gianvito Martino
told a news conference.
"With this discovery, we are
moving closer to a targeted use of stem cell therapy without side
effects," researcher Stefano Pluchino said.
"The
interesting thing is that adult stem cells grow in vitro without
becoming specialized, they are injected and the find the damaged organ
by themselves and decide autonomously how to treat it."
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