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EPISODE · Nov 17, 2020 · 4 MIN

MS vaccine using your own brain cells

from Naked Scientists, In Short Special Editions Podcast · host The Naked Scientists

Could an injection of your own brain cells be a way to halt multiple sclerosis - MS? That's what researchers in the US are finding in mice with the disease. In MS, the immune system attacks the brain and spinal cord, damaging a material called myelin. An extract of this myelin material, injected into the bloodstream, can permanently deactivate the immune cells that cause MS... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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