Stem cells restore cognitive abilities impaired by brain cancer treatment: study

People's Daily Sunday 5th February, 2012

Human neural stem cells are capable of helping people regain learning and memory abilities lost due to radiation treatment for brain tumors, a University of California, Irvine (UCI) study suggests.Research with rats found that stem cells transplanted two days after cranial irradiation restored cognitive function, as measured in one- and four-month ...

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