Thursday, January 13, 2011

Stem cell therapy applied to cerebral palsy treatment

A new, controversial stem-cell treatment may be the answer to treating cerebral palsy.

Being born three months prematurely, a now two-year-old girl, Savanna, will receive stem cells from her baby brother’s umbilical cord in attempts to treat her condition.

Stem-cell research has been an object of a lot of press, and this may be a situation where it can improve the lives of not only the young children, but the entire families as well.

At Duke University if North Carolina, scientists have performed successful clinical studies using stem-cells and believe this may be a time when their research can help.

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