A domestic research team says it has treated brain disease in mice using human nerve stem cells, a kind of adult stem cell.

Professor Kim Seung Up and his team at Ajou University's Brain Disease Research Center said Thursday that they successfully cured cerebral apoplexy and neuroblastoma in mice by transplanting nerve stem cells from human fetus brain tissue.

Their results have been published in the journals “Stem Cell” and “PloS One.”

The team will soon launch clinical tests on brain tumor patients at the City of Angels Medical Center in Los Angeles.