Stem cell therapy is an emerging treatment method for multiple sclerosis (MS). This kind of therapy involves taking stem cells from a patient’s bone marrow, peripheral blood, or umbilical cord blood. After the material is collected, the patient’s immune system is either partially or completely ablated (immunoablation), which means the immune system is significantly reduced or destroyed. The intended result of the therapy is to return the immune system to a functional state so that the body’s autoimmune attack on myelin is halted.
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society supports the use of a patient-derived bone marrow transplant to treat people with very aggressive relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) who responded poorly to disease-modifying therapies (DMTs). This position in line with a…
Read moreResearchers in Spain have found that specific fat stem cells from mice could be excellent tools for studying transplantation of stem cells in autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis (MS). The work was published in the December 12th issue…
In-vitro laboratory experiments using stem cells have long-since been the subject of debate between scientists and naturalists, but when it comes to developing effective methods to grow human cells and tissue for use in a potentially…
A new stem cell transplant therapy may offer patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) an alternative treatment option. According to a recent report on KCBD by Kasie Davis, researchers are pointing to the success of an MS patient named Dan Tiel,…
Australian authorities are alerting Multiple Sclerosis patients to the risk of unproven stem cell treatments that are being performed both in the country and overseas, after the recent death of a woman in Russia undergoing a controversial treatment…
Startup biotech company ImStem Biotechnology is looking to raise additional funding for their upcoming clinical trials after publishing promising research on a unique stem-cell treatment used on mice with multiple sclerosis…
Stem therapy to treat multiple sclerosis may benefit greatly from a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by the laboratory of Fraser Sim, Ph.D., assistant professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology…
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a devastating disease for many who become afflicted with the disease’s progressive form, often in the prime of their lives, with no cure and when the effectiveness of established MS treatment is so often…
Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), the University of California (UC), Irvine and The University of Utah report that mice crippled by an autoimmune disease similar to multiple sclerosis (MS) regained the ability to walk…
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