January 2010

January 28, 2010
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Life So Far In 2010

My disease is relentless, whenever I feel that it has stopped progressing the very next day new symptoms appear. Now my neck muscles are starting to get weak and my breathing is getting shallow as well. For past month there have been few incidents of choking on saliva, but nothing that would scare me. I’m [...]

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January 21, 2010
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First U.S. Stem Cells Transplanted Into Spinal Cord

And so it begins… For the first time in the United States, stem cells have been directly injected into the spinal cord of a patient, researchers announced Thursday. Doctors injected stem cells from 8-week-old fetal tissue into the spine of a man in his early 60s who has advanced ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. It [...]

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January 20, 2010
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The Great Fall

It’s been a while since my last tumble to ground and chances of one happening were quite high. Well it happened today! I was enjoying a relaxing foot massage in a garden chair when this happened. During the massage my cousin lost control of my legs and the chair tipped backwards. In a split second [...]

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January 13, 2010
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Stem Cell Trials Are Here

FDA has approved another stem cell trial. Looks like 2010 is going to be an exciting year. Under the scientific guidance of cellular biologist, Jose J. Minguell, Ph.D., the adult stem cells will be taken from the patient’s bone marrow in a simple outpatient procedure. The cells will then be processed in TCA-CT’s GMP laboratory [...]

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January 12, 2010
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Scientists Identify Role Of Key Protein In ALS

Some exciting research news to begin the year. Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease (GIND) have identified the reason a key protein plays a major role in two neurodegenerative diseases. In the current edition of the Journal of Neuroscience, researchers in the laboratory of GIND Associate Director Steven Finkbeiner, MD, PhD have found [...]

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