Friday, October 24, 2014

HEALTH - Breakthourgh in Cell Transplants for Paralytics

"Paralyzed man walks after transplanted cells repair his spine" PBS NewsHour 10/21/2014

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SUMMARY:  A Bulgarian man who was paralyzed from the chest down after a 2010 stabbing can now walk after a pioneering transplant in Poland.  Cells from the man’s nose were used to repair his spinal nerves in a surgery that gives thousands of paralytics new hope for movement.  Alex Thompson of Independent Television News has the report.

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