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Cell Transplant Allows Paralyzed Man To Walk
New submitter tiberus sends word of a breakthrough medical treatment that has restored the ability to walk to a man who was paralyzed from the chest down after his spinal cord was severed in a knife attack. A research team from the UK, led by Professor Geoff Raisman, transplanted cells from the patient's nose, along with strips of nerve tissue from his ankle, to the place where the spine was severed. This allowed the fibers in the spinal cord to gradually reconnect.
The treatment used olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs) - specialist cells that form part of the sense of smell. ... In the first of two operations, surgeons removed one of the patient's olfactory bulbs and grew the cells in culture. Two weeks later they transplanted the OECs into the spinal cord, which had been cut through in the knife attack apart from a thin strip of scar tissue on the right. They had just a drop of material to work with - about 500,000 cells. About 100 micro-injections of OECs were made above and below the injury. Four thin strips of nerve tissue were taken from the patient's ankle and placed across an 8mm (0.3in) gap on the left side of the cord. ... Two years after the treatment, he can now walk outside the rehabilitation center using a frame.
How does he smell?
Terrible.
(Forgive me. The first image that came to mind when I read this story was the movie "Sleeper", when they were trying to clone the assassinated leader using his nose.)
In this case I'd say it's more about sinuses.
And if God were so great and awesome then he wouldn't have cut the man's spinal cord in the first place, now would he?
FLAME ON BITCHES! Remember, YOU had to bring religion into this.
King James Bible
"Therefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, so death passed onto all men, for all have sinned"
https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Romans%205:12 (Romans 5:12)
New International Version
"We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one."
http://biblehub.com/1_john/5-19.htm (1 John 5:19)
New World Translation
"At that time the eyes of the blind will be opened, And the ears of the deaf will be unstopped. At that time the lame will leap like the deer, And the tongue of the speechless will shout for joy. For waters will burst forth in the wilderness,
And streams in the desert plain."
http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/b/r1/lp-e/nwt/E/2013/23/35#h=949:0-952:0 (Isaiah 35:5,6)
New International Version
"The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance"
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+peter+3%3A9&version=NIV (2 Peter 3:9)
King James Bible
"And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away."
http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Revelation-21-3_21-4/ (Revelation 21:3 - 21:4)