Areas in red indicate mouse brain cells coated with myelin, a crucial substance lacking in patients with M.S.
Scientists have improved upon their own previous world-best efforts to pluck out just the right stem cells to address the brain problem at the core of multiple sclerosis and a large number of rare, fatal children’s diseases.
Details of how scientists isolated and directed stem cells from the human brain to become oligodendrocytes – the type of brain cell that makes myelin, a crucial fatty material that coats neurons and allows them to signal effectively – were published online and in the October issue of Nature Biotechnologyby scientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center and the University at Buffalo.
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