Stem Cells May Treat Muscular Dystrophy
From Times Wire Reports
Important evidence that human stem cells can be implanted and become part of muscles suggests that muscular dystrophy may yet become treatable, scientists announced.
The discovery--made because of an odd biomedical coincidence--showed new cells can infiltrate a person’s damaged muscles, take root and survive for years. This is what is needed, on a larger scale, to attack the inherited disease.
“This says that we can get those cells recruited” into weakening muscles, said Dr. Louis Kunkel, of Children’s Hospital in Boston.
