UM completes 1st stage of stem-cell therapy for ALS

With an operation to inject stem cells into the spinal cord of an ALS patient on Oct. 2, a team at the University of Michigan completed the first stage of its U.S. Food and Drug Administration trials to test a new therapy for the deadly neurological disease.

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