For many years now the hope of further advances in Stem Cell Multiple Sclerosis has been a bright spot on the horizon for sufferers of the crippling disease and the Researchers trying to cure and treat it. Stem Cell MS Treatment is being researched worldwide and has been in trial on humans and animals. Researching Stem Cell Multiple Sclerosis methods is an expensive proposition and government has been an unreliable source of money because of the controversy that swirls around the use of embryonic stem cells.

Enter Fast Forward, a nonprofit subsidiary arm of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. They announced in October of 2011 that they will enter into an alliance with Athersys, Inc to develop further the stem cell MS treatment known as MultiStem. They are infusing $640,000 into the alliance with the hopes they can gain FDA approval faster to use the off the shelf Stem Cell …

There are a lot of people with high hopes for Stem Cell MS treatment to one day become the holy grail in MS treatment, symptom relief, even cure. Many celebrities have voiced their support for stem cell research to cure diseased of all types. MS is just one of them. A small study conducted at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine is one of many showing promise. The results of the study were published in The Lancet Neurology and authored by Richard Burt, chief of Immunotherapy for Autoimmune Diseases at the school.  The bottom line of the study was that 80% of the enrolled participants showed symptom improvement in their early-stage Multiple Sclerosis.

The idea of the study was to develop a therapy to regenerate a new immune system

Even with the high hopes for Stem Cell MS treatment, that is quite a tall order, and would certainly …