A cure for MS

[monkeybus]

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Android link. I'm on my phone. I'll post a Web link later.

You can't trust popular science stories. If you could, everything would be cured.

Still, have a read of this. Tangentially related to our disease.

[wilburlois15]

Similar story on the BBC news this morning. It sounds like good news for MS sufferers, although given the severity of the treatment I'd imagine it will be only available to people with poor prognoses, similar to BMT for AMD/ALD.

[dryder]

Thanks for sharing!

[KeithS]

They were using similar techniques in Sheffield UK, there was a TV show about it (if you want to search ITV was the channel).

Unfortunately for us in MS the immune system is attacking the mylene. This process is harvesting stem cells, using chemo to wipe out the whole immune system then using the stem cells to create an immune system that doesn't attack mylene.

VLCFA are attacking mylene in our case so while this of interest I don't think it offers us anything this time.

K

[SongStream]

I've always thought that AMN involves axonal degeneration in the spine and is only myelin related when it becomes cerebral. That is why the stem cell approach is for only cerebral involvement and why it is important to have an annual MRI before symptoms appear.