Immediately after the injury, nerve cells inside die and others lose their ability to pass on signals.
Aileen Anderson
This is a first step in what has to be a long series of steps to get to anything clinical.
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This work is a promising step, and supports the need to study multiple stem cell types for the possibility of treating human neurological injury and disease.
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We show that these [stem] cells make connections with the nervous system of the mouse in a way that is appropriate and could mediate recovery. That's a big thing.
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Mechanism is always important, because without understanding it, it's difficult to predict how animal data would translate to people.
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The actual cells that we transplanted, the human cells, are the ones that are making myelin. We're extremely excited about these cells.
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We're very excited about these stem cells. We're really on the cusp of making some big leaps forward.
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