GIVING a small group of people with multiple sclerosis a brand new immune system built from their stem cells appears to have stopped the disease in its tracks.
“For the first time ever in the history of treating MS, we have reversed disability,” says of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
In MS, a person’s own immune system attacks the fatty myelin sheath that wraps around nerve cells, slowing down the transmission of nerve impulses. Burt’s team wondered if they could prevent the destruction of myelin by giving people with MS a new immune system grown from their own stem cells.…
