ISRAEL TO BEGIN TESTING ON HUMANS FOR CURE OF ALS

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Specific differentiated stem cells derived from patient's own bone marrow (illustration)  photo: Fluristem
 
   
     

BrainStorm to begin ALS drug trials in Israel

Company says its treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) uses stem cells taken from bone marrow of adults, rather than more controversial embryonic stem cell

Reuters
Published:    10.26.10, 16:58 / Israel Culture
   
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Israel's BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics will begin clinical trials of its stem cell treatment for the neurological disease ALS after receiving clearance from Israel's Ministry of Health.

 
The company said last week its treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), often referred to as Lou Gehrig's Disease, uses stem cells taken from the bone marrow of adults, rather than more controversial embryonic stem cells. The use of embryonic stem cells has raised a storm of controversy due to religious, ethical and political issues involved in harvesting cells from embryos.

 
"We believe that our specific differentiated stem cells derived from a patient's own bone marrow could represent a new treatment paradigm for patients with ALS and other neurological disorders," said BrainStorm President Chaim Lebovits.

 
The trials, to be conducted at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem, will begin after the validation of sterility tests and the screening of patients, the company said.

 
BrainStorm has said it is focusing its research on Parkinson's Disease, which affects 4 million people in the West, but that it can move faster with ALS, which afflicts an average of two out of 100,000 people a year, because it is terminal and considered an "orphan" or rare disease.

 
Robert Brown Jr., professor and chair of neurology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, said in a statement BrainStorm's stem cell treatment was a new approach that could help in several neurological diseases, including ALS and Parkinson's.

 

"If safe and effective, this new therapy could become a treatment option for thousands of patients," he said.

[Rubystars]

Sounds like this could really help people.

[The proud Jew]

It can and i predict that an israeli or jewish scientist will discover the cure to cancer!

[Rubystars]

Yes the world owes a lot to brilliant Jewish minds and to God who granted them that.

[Rubystars]

It would be nice to see a cure for Progeria one day soon too. I feel so sad for those little kids with the bodies of old men and women.

[Ithaca-37]

Before these researchers do their first human tests, they should consider first testing on Muslims.

Har-har!!

37

[IsraelForever]

And on another medical front, in Iran, brilliant Iranian scientists are now running tests on a cure for poison ivy.

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

Just wait, the sausage-smokers over on Fagfront are going to say that Israeli scientists harvested stem cells from Fakestinian kids (without anesthesia) to do this. 

[דוד בן זאב אריה]

Israel has the brains to do this. I have the faith that they will find a cure for this terible afliction. However Israel should stay away from AIDS and HIV reaserch let the fags die.

[Rubystars]

Before these researchers do their first human tests, they should consider first testing on Muslims.

Har-har!!

37

  Your post made me laugh. Muslims don't really deserve access to the new medicines though.