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I really hope this is the beginning of the end for this horrible disease.
The disease is caused by the body's immune system thinking that myelin is a foreign body like a flu virus.
Researchers at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine developed a technique to retrain the immune system.
They took blood samples and coupled white blood cells, a part of the immune system, to fragments of myelin. This was injected back into the patients to make them tolerate myelin.
The researchers said the therapy appeared safe. The study was too small to prove whether it benefited patients, but the researchers did report a calming of the immune reaction.
Researchers at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine developed a technique to retrain the immune system.
They took blood samples and coupled white blood cells, a part of the immune system, to fragments of myelin. This was injected back into the patients to make them tolerate myelin.
The researchers said the therapy appeared safe. The study was too small to prove whether it benefited patients, but the researchers did report a calming of the immune reaction.
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