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...wits' end when he hit upon an unorthodox solution. It was 2 a.m. and he was sitting in the outer office of his advisor's suite. Suddenly he looked up and saw the phone--and the phone cord...
Last year Molly's parents underwent in- vitro fertilization to try to create just such a donor; two weeks ago, doctors at Fairview-University Hospital in Minneapolis, Minn., successfully transferred tissue from Adam's discarded umbilical cord into Molly's body...
AILING. CHRISTOPHER REEVE, 48, paralyzed actor-director and tenacious champion of spinal-cord research; with a broken left thigh bone that snapped during routine physical therapy; in Los Angeles. Because of his paralysis, Reeve has bones that are especially brittle. His dream of walking by his 50th birthday, he admitted in June, is somewhat illusory: "2002 was a thing I put forward as a way to motivate the scientists...
Ever since they were first isolated two years ago, embryonic stem cells have been touted as a potential medical miracle. Diabetes, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's and spinal-cord injury are among the devastating maladies that might be treated by turning these versatile cells into healthy replacements for just about any damaged tissue, from the pancreas to the brain...
...helped with Reeve foundation and National Institutes of Health monies) announced they had developed the first successful procedure to convert cultured bone marrow stem cells exclusively into nerve cells. The research, published in the Journal of Neuroscience Research this month, could help in the treatment of everything from spinal cord injury and stroke to degenerative diseases like Parkinson...