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Stem cells may automatically protect brain

Stem Cells

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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Re: Stem cells may automatically protect brain (Score: 1)
by mlesueur on Saturday, July 16 @ 07:30:49 CDT
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This is indeed exiting news and the need for further work is understood. Maybe the problem should have been expressed as follows "causes the stem cells to seek out and repair brain inflammation automousely"

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