Scientists in October of 2011 have improved previous efforts in Treating Multiple Sclerosis with stem cells by getting precisely the correct stem cells to correct the root cause of most of disease’s problem. Treating MS with stem cells is not new but the precision of this new effort is. The key is isolating and then managing to “instruct” the stem cell to become an oligodendrocyte cell.  The oligodendrocytes are the type of brain cell that makes myelin. Treating Multiple Sclerosis in this fashion goes to the core of the problem since it is the destruction of the myelin that is at the heart of the crippling disease’s problem.

The author of the paper, Dr. Fraser Sim at the University of Buffalo did much of the work in this revolutionary way of treating MS while he was a researcher at Rochester, NY.   He said “Characterizing and isolating the exact cells to …