A stem cell first at OHSU: Hospital conducts experimental transplant on child with fatal disease

Source: Portland Tribune
Date: November 22, 2006

Summary:

Surgeons at Doernbecher Children’s Hospital at Oregon Health & Science University performed what is believed to be the first-ever transplant of fetal stem cells into a human brain. The cells, called purified neural stem cells, were injected directly into the brain of a child suffering from a rare and fatal neurodegenerative disorder called Batten disease.