The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently approved a groundbreaking trial by the University of Texas Medical School at Houston to evaluate the safety of using a child’s own cord blood stem cells to regenerate damaged cells in the inner ear and potentially restore the child’s hearing. Just as antibiotics changed the treatment of infections, stem cells may revolutionize the future of nervous system repair.
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