Meet Dr. Craig Walsh. He's Director of the Multiple Sclerosis Research Center and Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Walsh's research focuses on both viral- and myelin antigen-induced models of multiple sclerosis (MS), and seeks to define specific strategies to promote immune tolerance to stem cell derivatives following transplantation
If you visit the Chicago Air Museum (now called the Museum of Science and Industry) you can see the actual plane the Wright brothers flew, on the world’s first leap into the sky. It is an amazing museum, well worth your time and the sixteen-dollar admission fee. But one of the most interesting exhibits might
At the end of this story is my non-scientific but heart-felt belief on how to keep your hair from falling out. But first, is baldness-cure research important, or just vanity? Think of one single hair on your head. If you pluck it, or if the skin around it is damaged, that stalk of hair will
As a child, I once tripped and fell while carrying a long thin bamboo rod. When I hit the ground, the stick penetrated my right eye. I put my hand up to my face and it came back full of blood. The hospital put a piratical patch on the injured eye. In a few days
Imagine a high school, with 1,000 students. But all of them are deathly sick; their limbs are failing, the muscles growing weak; they are all becoming paralyzed, and will die in 3-5 years. Now imagine thirty-two such schools, with everybody diagnosed with ALS, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, sometimes called Lou Gehrig’s disease. This is no horror
When you first speak to Rosie Barrero, it is difficult to believe she is blind. Her eyes follow you as you speak—but she is guided by hearing, not sight. As she puts it, “I cannot go outside the house by myself.” As a child, Rosie lost night vision, and was called “nearsighted” by a school nurse.
A website for five affiliated stem cell clinics, hails a “breakthrough” for Parkinson’s disease: “Stem Cells Replace Damaged Nerves, Reverse Symptoms.” For those of you whose lives — or whose loved ones’ lives — have been upended by chronic or incurable conditions such as Parkinson’s, that’s just the kind of breakthrough you’ve been waiting for.
