Stem Cell Research May Lead To New Treatments For Parkinson's Disease, Huntington's Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Stroke, Spinal Cord Injury

Medical News Today, Article Date: 26 Mar 2011

As always, they forget the rare diseases, but I think this aproach is also useful for FA.

A group of scientists at Marshall University is conducting research that may someday lead to new treatments for repair of the central nervous system.

Price said the neurons they found appear to have many of the qualities desired for cells being used in development of therapies for slowly progressing, degenerative conditions

Multipotent progenitor cells derived from adult peripheral blood of swine have high neurogenic potential in vitro. Nadja Spitzer, Gregory S. Sammons, Heather M. Butts, Lawrence M. Grover, Elmer M. Price.Journal of Cellular Physiology, 2011; DOI: 10.1002/jcp.22670