Multiple sclerosis (MS) in children is being recognized with increasing frequency. The first descriptions of MS in children were published by Charcot between 1829 and 1849, though it was not for another 50 years that MS in children was again described in the literature (Hanefeld, 2007). There are now several national programs focused read more »
In the development of new therapies for multiple sclerosis, there are occasions in which the results of a study surprise investigators and challenge their long-held beliefs about MS. A recent example is the evolving story concerning the development of a drug called rituximab as a treatment for MS, specifically read more »
Austin Smith and his research team at the Centre for Stem Cell Research in Cambridge, England have just published in the journal Development (http://dev.biologists.org/) a new and safer way of generating pluripotent
