Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Stem cell scaffolds repair rodent spinal cord damage

Source: NewScientist.com news service
Date: 11:32 18 February 2006
Roxanne Khamsi, St Louis

Synthetic structures seeded with neuron-producing human stem cells can help rodents with severe spinal cord damage to regain mobility, early results from animal tests suggest. Researchers hope that the approach might one day help to heal nervous system injury in humans.

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