You've got to take all of these early reports of major advancements in the fight against MS with several large grains of salt. More often than not these releases are meant to kickstart funding for the research, or to increase the stock prices of the companies involved in the initial research.

Sorry if that's a jaded view, but it's the doggone truth. You must keep in mind that mice simply do not get MS. They are given a disease that mimics MS by injecting the mice with myelin proteins, to which they have an allergic reaction. This allergic reaction causes their immune systems to attack their CNS, but that's as far as the similarities between the mouse disease (EAE) and human MS go.

As others have noted, even if this research did prove effective once transitioned to humans, you're looking at a minimum of seven to 10 years before it hits the market.

Sorry to be a downer, but I find it almost unconscionable the way the emotions of MS patients are played with by these hyped up stories of "major discoveries" that are never heard from again…

The medical research model that has evolved in the last couple of decades is seriously broken. Desperately ill patients have been transformed into consumers, and that's a very bad development…