Smith also found this news from the UK abut a new clinical trial in humans testing the ability of bone marrow stem cells to help treat multiple sclerosis:

The procedure involves patients being injected with stem cells taken from their own bone marrow, in the hope that they will travel to damaged parts of the brain and repair them.

The trial started six months ago and involves six MS patients between the ages of 30 and 60. Researchers warn that it could take a number of months or even years to begin to effectively treat this disease, but are confident that this research is a step in the right direction.

I can’t, for the life of me, figure out why so many people, desperate for cures, don’t look at the advancements in the one area of stem cell research with even an equal amount of enthusiasm as they do cloning/ESC research – which has never once progressed to the level of human clinical trials.