1. Doctors have been transplanting corneal cells from donor eyes for years. 2. It will be years before NeuralStem will even attempt to transplant cells into people. 3. Reemtsma spent his career seeking to transplant islet cells from the pancreas as a cure for diabetes. 4. Short then aims to transplant human cells. 5. The study was designed to measure the safety and benefits of surgically transplanting neural cells from a fetal pig into the brain to replace cells lost to the disease. 6. Then they have transplanted the cells back into damaged animal brains. 7. Then they would transplant islet cells into the mice. 8. Doctors there are experimentally transplanting human cells into the brains of stroke victims. 9. For one thing, their experiments suggest that damaged parts of the brain send out help signals that can recruit transplanted cells and show them what to do. 10. Human liver failure often involves a virus or a toxin that may persist even after the liver cells are transplanted, he said. |