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Scientist explores new avenue to fight Multiple Sclerosis

Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 12:39 am
by MSUK
A research scientist at Albany Medical College has identified a potential path to providing relief of symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS), a disease with few treatments that affects 350,000 Americans.

Writing in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Dorina Avram, Ph.D., professor in the Center for Immunology and Microbial Disease at Albany Medical College, said she was able to eliminate symptoms in mice which have an MS-like disease by removing a single molecule to alter the immune system’s T-cells........ Read More - http://www.ms-uk.org/immunecells