In Landmark Study, Human Stem Cells Restore Monkeys’ Movement After Spinal Cord Injury
“For the last three decades, neuroscientists have been scratching their heads, testing cocktail after cocktail of special molecules that can boost stem cell survival. And while there have been successes in rodent models, scaling the therapy to work in primates—a critical step towards human trials—has floundered.
Until now. Last month, a “landmark” studypublished in Nature Medicine detailed a recipe for transplanted human stem cells to survive and integrate inside the injured spines of monkeys.
Nine months after surgery, the cells extended hundreds of thousands of branches that formed synapses with the monkey’s surviving spinal cord neurons. What’s more, the hosts’ spinal neurons also welcomed the human cells as their own, reaching out to form new connections that restored the animal’s ability to grasp objects…”
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I think you had a typo at the start of your post.
Parallel Ender Ah, thank you. I missed a space. Corrected.
Thanks when stories arrives I am also available.