Yale scientists repair injured spinal cords using patients’ own stem cells
news.yale.edu- Injecting stem cells into veins of patients with spinal cord injuries led to a big improvement in their motor functions.
- Half the patients in the study regained some key functions - walking, using hands - just weeks after the injection.
- The stem cells were taken from the patients themselves.
- To make this clinical trial possible, Yale and Sapporo university teams had to do years of preclinical laboratory work.
- These results are promising and give hope, yet study authors say it will still take years before doctors will be able to fix brain and spinal cord injuries this way.

on February 26, 2021