Multiple Sclerosis Discovery: The Podcast Of The Ms Discovery Forum

[intro music] Host – Dan Keller Hello, and welcome to Episode Fifty-Five of Multiple Sclerosis Discovery, the podcast of the MS Discovery Forum. I’m your host, Dan Keller. This week’s Podcast features an interview with Dr. Michael Levy, who discusses the status of regenerative stem cell therapies for multiple sclerosis. But first, here are some new items in the MS Discovery Forum. Our lead story last week looked at a way to prevent a rare but dangerous viral brain infection that can be a side effect of certain drugs. The risk of infection limits the people who can take natalizumab to prevent the inflammatory brain attacks of relapsing-remitting MS. Two new papers propose vaccinating people against the virus. Experts are still debating the underlying biology, but they say the approach should be tested in people. Every week, MSDF lists the latest scientific papers related to MS, with links to the abstracts on PubMed. Of more than 100 new studies published last week, we selected three as editor’s picks. One stud