the surprise discovery could pave the way to ground-breaking new therapies for the devastating auto-immune disease , which affects around 2.5 million worldwide .
scientists found that the anti-fungal agent miconazole and the steroid clobetasol both restored movement to mice paralysed by a rodent version of multiple sclerosis -lrb- ms -rrb- .
in laboratory tests , they prompted inactive and human stem cells to regenerate myelin , the protective insulation-like coating around nerve fibres that is destroyed by the disease that