Sentences with phrase «rare brain stem»

Fighting a rare brain stem tumor in my spare time.

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But scientists are making progress in refining these therapies, and the first ever trial of fetal stem cells injected directly into the brain is currently under way in children with Batten disease, a rare and fatal illness of the nervous system.

A more highly publicised case was in 2009, when an Israeli teenager developed brain and spinal tumours after receiving several implants of fetal stem cells in Moscow to treat a rare degenerative condition.

The pain is the hallmark of a very rare, but unusually deadly type of stroke called a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), the result of ruptured blood vessels leaking blood between the skull and brain and around the brain stem.

In a study spanning molecular genetics, stem cells and the sciences of both brain and behavior, researchers at University of California San Diego, with colleagues at the Salk Institute of Biological Studies and elsewhere, have created a neurodevelopmental model of a rare genetic disorder that may provide new insights into the underlying neurobiology of the human social brain.

Doctors in Moscow injected neural embryonic stem cells into the brain and spinal fluid of a boy suffering from a rare, disabling, inherited disease, ataxia telangiectasia.

Abdel Benraiss (Rochester) studies brain «stem cells» - a rare type of brain cell that can grow and divide, producing new brain cells.

The challenge takes on even more urgency with recent developments, including a federal administration now more open to exploring the potential of stem cells, the recent FDA approval of a human trial involving embryonic stem cells, as well as the reported case of a young boy who developed a brain tumor four years after receiving a stem - cell treatment for a rare genetic disorder.