Nueral Stem Cells

Scientists in Oregon have demonstrated that banked nueral stem cells can survive and make functional myelin in mice that have lost myelin. Myelin is the critical fatty insulation, or sheath, surrounding new nerve fibers and is essential for normal brain function.This is a very good thing in the field of medicine in terms of advancing stem cell research. Myelin disorders are a common, extremely disabling, often fatal type of brain disease found in children and adults.Scientists have also discovered that a healthy brain has a lot of white matter and that the reason for memory loss in adults is because of the loss of white matter. This study is also important because the researchers can determine by MRI that the transplant was successful.