Source: Stanford Magazine
Date: January / February 2005

Summary:
Stanford Magazine reports on a possible stroke treatment using human fetal stem cells:
"'STROKE, the leading cause of serious, long-term disability in the United States, “is a disease where we do not have good treatments,” says neurosurgeon Gary Steinberg. Americans spend $30 billion a year on stroke recovery and rehabilitation, but doctors have no way to repair the damaged brain tissue. That may soon change. Researchers in Steinberg’s lab have demonstrated that human fetal stem cells, when transplanted into the brains of laboratory rats with induced strokes, can migrate toward the damaged location and turn into neurons and support cells.'"
