Re:Canadian doctors reverse severe MS using stem cells
by jonlucc on Saturday June 11, 2016 @07:06AM
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The Lancet article says that one patient died of complications with the transplant procedure, and this was Phase 2. I'm in pharma, not stem cells, but if a patient died due to treatment, the project would be killed. Perhaps the transplant procedure is well-understood along with its risks (I assume you have to transplant into the CNS?), but even oncology drugs aren't allowed to kill patients anymore.
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Re:Canadian doctors reverse severe MS using stem cells
by lostlogin on Saturday June 11, 2016 @01:03PM
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No, not into CNS. It is a well established procedure, is more than a little rough.
"Those stem cells were then purified, wiped of any memory of the disease, to later be transplanted into Molson through a blood transfusion."