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British Trials to Use Stem Cells For Stroke, Blindness

Posted January 19, 2009 9:13 AM

From Yahoo! News: Science News:

Two separate trials are set to begin in Britain utilising cutting edge stem cell research in a bid to help treat victims of strokes and blindness, medical experts announced Monday. Doctors are hoping to launch the world's first trial for a treatment that aims to improve the quality of life for thousands of stroke victims on patients in Glasgow in June, although the procedure must still be approved by an ethics committee.

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Re: British Trials to Use Stem Cells For Stroke, Blindness

01/19/2009 11:21 AM

I'm all for injecting pretty much anything into human bodies for both fun and science. Wish them the best of luck! I never heard much follow-up on the US trials (using genes, not stem cells) to treat blindness - other than as the article said that the results were "dramatic". Anyone?

But I'm slightly irked that they're not putting at least some priority toward jabbing their needles into scalps to cure male pattern baldness. I'm running on borrowed time here.
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Re: British Trials to Use Stem Cells For Stroke, Blindness

01/20/2009 11:02 PM

Get to it!!!

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