Stem Cells: Bringing Back So Many Feels

Paralyzed patients have injuries partially reversed by stem cell injection

StemCells, Inc., a California company developing stem cell therapies for spinal cord injury, has reported that a handful of patients receiving their new stem cell treatment (currently in testing) have regained feeling months after the original injury.

These people weren’t able to feel anything below the nipples before they received treatment. After an injection of several million neural stem cells (a specific stem cell that can create neurons) to the injured area, they are now able to feel touch and temperature. 

Above, Dr. Irving Weissman of StemCells, Inc. explains some of the biology behind this amazing result. This marks the first time that neural stem cells (instead of embryonic stem cells) have been shown to reverse this kind of injury.

Time will tell if it’s a permanent fix, and there’s always the concern of abnormal growths like cancer with stem cell therapies like this, but three cheers for living in the future!!

(via New Scientist)

Source: newscientist.com

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