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A healing balm for the brain? Infusions of umbilical cord blood seem to help people recover better after a stroke.
Strokes occur when blood canāt reach brain cellsĀ because of a blocked or burst blood vessel, causingĀ them to rapidly starve and die.Ā Ā at Duke University, North Carolina, and her colleagues wondered if young blood might help heal brains that have been damaged in this way.
Blood fromĀ babiesĢż²¹²Ō»åĢżteenagersĀ has previously been shown to reverse brain ageing in older mice, and there are hints that young…
