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Adult Stem Cell Therapy Successfully Treats Spinal Cord Injury
An interesting spinal cord injury study was published last week. The Turkish researchers tested two types of stem cells on spinal cord injured mice. The two cell types were native bone marrow cells and cultured repair stem cells called Mesenchymal stem cells. Native bone marrow cells contain bone marrow forming stem cells as well as…
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«The fight to walk» – spinal cord injury patient improving after stem cell therapy in Panama
Published March 31, 2012 By Sue Guinn Legg – Press Staff Writer Daniel Leonard is doing all he can to walk again, and after a recent course of stem cell treatment he’s as close as he has been since a few months after the 2005 injury that put him a wheelchair. He was 22 years…
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Umbilical cord stem cells may lead to new spinal cord injury and multiple sclerosis treatments
Researchers in Florida have accomplished converting umbilical cord stem cells into other cell types. According to University of Central Florida bioengineer James Hickman, it’s the first time that non-embryonic cells have accomplished this feat. His research group published this work in the January 18th issue of ACS Chemical Neuroscience. Two major benefits of umbilical cord-derived…