Paralyzed Woman Walks Again

mgv writes "It's been promised for years, but it's just become a reality. Stem cells taken from cord blood have enabled a paralysed woman in South Korea to walk again for the first time in 20 years. The details are on the Sydney Morning Herald Site which requires registration, but can also be seen on the World Peace Herald. Too late for Christopher Reeve, but not for the thousands of new injuries worldwide each year or the millions of paralysed people from other diseases in the world."

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I only speak American

[jjthe2]

Will this also work on paralyzed people?

Re:Benefits of Ethics

[acidrain69]

No one is proposing that we ONLY fund Embryonic stem cells. The real problem is that we are NOT funding something that be be life saving and useful.

You can spin this however you want, but if anything, I think this PROMOTES lifting the ban on federally funded embryonic stem cell research, because it shows that they are useful, and can be made to heal people. What can be done with Embryonic cells that can't be done with the umbilical ones?? The US may never know with right wing crazies in the white house.

Re:Molecules cannot metabolize, grow, reproduce, o

[nwbvt]

Forgot this last time:

As per your statement on bacteria in corpses, they are not considered part of the corpse. There is bacteria in the glass on my desk, that does not make the glass a living thing.