Immune Cells Revive Woman in Coma

May 17, 2012 (MSNBC) - Researchers from the University of Munich recently reported that they were able to awaken an 82-year-old woman who'd been in a persistent vegetative state by using injections of her own immune cells.

The woman, who had suffered a stroke, had been cared for at home by her family and a home health nurse -- for nine long years. Then her doctors proposed an experimental new treatment, offering to give the octogenarian intramuscular injections of her own immune cells, specially activated in the laboratory to produce substances thought to modulate brain activity. (continue...)

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