Sunday, August 30, 2009

MRI methods can show bone marrow stem cells’ viability as brain-repairing therapy

Stem Cell Research Blog, 20 Aug 2009

WASHINGTON - Researchers at Tel Aviv University have offered new hope for people with incurable neurodegenerative diseases like Huntington’s, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s by showing that the viability of stem cells created from a patient’s own bone marrow can be determined using MRI tracking methods.