Stem Cell Therapy for Neurological Disorders: New Research Directions
Neurology has always tested the limits of modern medicine. A damaged liver can regenerate. Bone knits. Skin heals. The brain and spinal cord do not forgive injury so easily. Neurons lost to stroke, Parkinson’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or traumatic spinal cord injury are not readily replaced, and even when some tissue survives, the surrounding environment often turns hostile to repair. Scar formation, chronic inflammation, disrupted signaling, and the she