A senior academic with multiple sclerosis (MS) has shared his story of how ethical stem cell treatment paused his condition and aided him in enjoying his life even more. Professor Robert Douglas-Fairhurst of Magdalen College, Oxford, was diagnosed with the degenerative disease in 2017, and over the next two years his condition deteriorated rapidly. EnjoymentThe treatment – autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplantation – is expensive but was successful, and because it uses cells from his own body, it does not require the destruction of human embryos. In terms of story, MS is supposed to be a tragedy, a demonstrable decline that ends up in a small patch of ground. If you don’t conform to that story people feel kind of cheated.”New boundariesReflecting on his condition, the Oxford don told Bleach: “It’s strange but I’m happier now than I was before I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

Source: The Times December 15, 2023 14:02 UTC