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Scientists had been wrestling with that problem long before Reeve was hurt, but he helped drive their research. An area of study that his foundation funds involves so-called Schwann cells, which play a role in helping nonspinal nerves to regenerate. In animal studies, Schwann cells grafted to the damaged part of the spine encourage nerve cells to grow into the graft but not, so far, to connect downstream. "They fail to bridge the cord," says Dalton Dietrich, scientific director of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis...
...Stem cell research is a controversial field right now, and I think that’s why I’ve gotten so much attention,” said Ali. “Using the umbilical cord cells fixes the lack of donors and graft recipient problems often associated with bone marrow transplants. This is really the Holy Grail of stem cell research, and could help overcome some of the field’s biggest roadblocks...
...Huang has a history of fighting graft. After serving in the People's Liberation Army, he rose to become head of the finance commission in Fuzhou. While helping lead an investigation into illegal pig slaughterhouses, he received death threats and his own deputy was beaten to death in an orange grove. The city issued him a bulletproof vest that he wore proudly around his office. The investigation led to jail terms for five prominent Party officials. On the day Huang reported for duty at Lianjiang in January 2002, a hundred residents stopped him to say the government had torn down...
...Huang's bosses in the provincial capital created their own team to investigate his allegations. But the implicit tension between growth and fighting graft was visible when the team was told to "strike a balance between the struggle against corruption and economic development," according to documents released by the city to rebut Huang's essay. In the event, the committee ruled that the case was an "economic dispute" rather than corruption and that construction should continue. After lobbying against the ruling for two years, Huang contacted the People's Daily website, which posted his essay after dispatching reporters to interview...
...mother's teachings inspired me again in the early 1950s, when I designed a graft for replacing a diseased aorta and arteries. I chose the then new synthetic cloth Dacron by touch, just as I had done as a boy. I drew the design on paper next, cut the fabric and finally put the prototype together at home on my wife's Singer sewing machine...