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How UCSD team's iPS cell-derived transplants could treat spinal cord injury

May 31, 2018 10:18 PM UTC

UCSD team developed iPS cell-derived transplants for spinal cord injury that require minimal immunosuppression.

Researchers from the University of California San Diego have demonstrated that iPS cell-derived transplants could be used to treat spinal cord injury, including trauma, ischemia or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, while requiring little to no immunosuppression. ...