GERMANY NEUROSCIENCE

INI neurosurgeons study new stem cell therapy with apoplexia patients

Apoplexia patient Walter Bast seen in front of sectional images of his brain at the International Neuroscience Institut (INI) in Hanover, Germany, 02 December 2008. INI Neurosurgeons are currently developing a new kind of therapy involving stem cells to help cure the impacts of apoplectic strokes. Genetically modified stem cells fitted into a kind of 'tea bag' are implanted to the patient's brain where they are supposed to have an anti-inflammatory effect. Walter Bast was the first patient to be treated with the new therapy method, which - according to the doctors - was unique in the world and resembled a 'kind of medicine factory in the head'. EPA/HOLGER HOLLEMANN

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