Showing posts with label Spinal cord injury. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spinal cord injury. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Restoring Memory Human Style

Stem cells
Stem cells (Photo credit: BWJones)
Human Stem Cells Found to Restore Memory
its stem-cell product has potential in protecting vision in diseased eyes, acting as brain support cells, or improving walking ability in rodents with spinal cord injury...... The company discovered the technique to isolate these cells from brain tissue in 1999 and has since spent some $200 million improving the technology. "Now we are really in the exciting phase, because now we are looking at human clinical data, as opposed to just small animals"
And there are actually people who are ideologically opposed to stem cell research! In this day and age!


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