Unique stem cell brittle-bone study starts
[PRESS RELEASE 12 October 2015] A study is to be conducted for the first time involving the transplantation of stem cells into unborn babies with the brittle-bone disease osteogenesis imperfecta, which causes repeated fractures often before birth. The study is to be coordinated by Karolinska Institutet but to be run as a collaboration between several leading European research centres and companies.Babies born with the severe form of osteogenesis imperfecta, or congenital brittle-bone disease, are often seriously ill. Repeated fractures in all parts of the skeleton give rise to physical