Source: Daily Telegraph
Posted: 28 September 2007 12:54am BST
Summary:
The Daily Telegraph reports on a new trial using adult bone marrow stem cells to attempt to treat Multiple Sclerosis:
"Tens of thousands of patients with MS could benefit from the revolutionary treatment if the tests taking place at the Frenchay hospital, near Bristol, are successful. Patients are injected with stem cells taken from their own bone marrow, not from umbilical cords The procedure involves patients being injected with stem cells taken from their own bone marrow, in the hope that they will travel to damaged parts of the brain and repair them."
