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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.
in another country other than the USA.
While the USA spirals down into a society controlled by religious nuts, other countries are doing the research.
And when they make the breakthrough, that lying politician and media pundit who ranted about abortion and whatnot will RUN and spend their millions to take advantage of that breakthrough - while the gullible people who follow and listen to them live in their ignorant satisfaction that they saved "babies" from being "murdered".
Anti-abortion laws are for little people. That politician who got elected on the "Pro-Life" platform will be the first to send his granddaughter "over there" to get the "problem" solved.
And TRY to PROVE it!
In the meantime, he and his colleagues write bills and pass laws to make themselves richer - while distracting the ignorant masses with distraction issues like abortion, gay marriage, gun control, and rationalizing tax cuts for the super wealthy as "helping the job creators".
God! I mean you got your Ar-15 but what good is it when a silent drone takes you out from a mile away?
OUtlaw abortion? I take my daughter on a plane and get one. Some prosecutor tries to get me....his career is over because I'm rich.
Gay marriage? Yeah, there are plenty of things that married couple benefit from. And everyone - without exception - who objects is a bigot. There is no moral (unless you follow that fairytale - Bible) reason to object.