Friday, January 30, 2009

New Treatments for MS Patients Using Adult Stem Cells

Here's yet another promising medical development using adult stem cells. It involves transplanting cells obtained from the patient's own bone marrow which seems to be stabilizing, even reversing multiple sclerosis.

And, of course, though the headline of the story screams "stem cells," you have to get halfway through it before discovering that it is (as always) adult stem cells that are providing the progress and hope.