Researchers from Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) in South Korea have created a microrobot that can deliver accurately therapeutic cells to specific parts of the brain. This magnetic microrobot were developed for three-dimensional culture and the precise delivery of stem cells in vitro, ex vivo, and in vivo. Such a development may one day be useful for treating a number of brain-related disorders.
Meanwhile, as stem cell research keep proving the many uses it could represent, nowadays there are practical uses for stem cells, e.g., the infusion of intrathecal autologous bone marrow total nucleated cells improves the neurologic evolution of pediatric patients with cerebral palsy.
There is accumulated evidence that shows that the administration of bone marrow total nucleated cells (TNC) into the brain may produce some benefits in several neurological areas such as motor, social, adaptive and cognitive.
Fuentes:
https://robotics.sciencemag.org/content/4/30/eaav4317
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02231242?term=consuelo+mancias-guerra&rank=1#studydesc
