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Multiple Sclerosis Damage Washed Away By Stream of Young Blood
FatLittleMonkey writes "A new study on mice suggests damage caused by diseases like Multiple sclerosis, as well as natural aging, can be reversed by an infusion of stem cell rich blood from younger mice. Multiple sclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease that erodes the fatty myelin sheaths around the axons of the brain and spinal cord, and can result in serious disability. Similar effects occur naturally with aging. From New Scientist: 'White blood cells called macrophages from the young mice gathered at the sites of myelin damage. Macrophages engulf and destroy pathogens and debris, including destroyed myelin. "We know this debris inhibits regeneration, so clearing it up is important," says team member Amy Wagers of Harvard University.' Here's the academic paper's abstract."
Need to bathe me in some virgin blood - Ahahahahaha!
A use for all those annoying neighborhood children.
We should try it anyway. For Marty's sake.
Professor Farnsworth knew it all along, so did Mr. Burns.
You can't handle the truth.
I always thought the high incidence of MS in Seattle was due to their headquarters being in Redmond
*ducks
Monstar L
MS and MSFT are both equally virulent diseases which have resisted our efforts to cure.
natural aging, can be reversed by an infusion of stem cell rich blood from younger mice.
That explains how Dick Cheney manages to hang on so long; he's been sucking the life force from local villagers at night.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
I hate to break it to you, but he has Parkinson's, not MS.
when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a skull.
The study was made in cooperation with the University of Transylvania.
"It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful." - Anton LaVey