Funky Mango has very kindly let us repost her Ovtober round up of multiple sclerosis research! Funky Mango blogs at http://funkymangosmusings.blogspot.com/ so please do wander over to see her in action! You can follow her on Twitter by going tohttp://twitter.com/#!/MargoJMilne .
There’s been some very interesting research announced this month. Some of it is pretty technical, but once I’ve worked out what it means myself, I’ll do my best to translate it!
American and Canadian researchers have developed an imaging technique using lasers that allows them to see the amount of damage the myelin sheaths around nerves have sustained. Previously, such measurements could only be obtained by removing the nerve and slicing it into layers – which was only possible once the patient was dead! So far, this research has only been carried out on animals, but it could in the future be used as a diagnostic tool for conditions like MS.
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