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...trial, which will test a stem-cell-based treatment for spinal-cord injury, will begin later this summer and will use cells generated by Geron Corp. The approval marks the first time human stem cells, extracted and grown from embryos, will be transplanted into patients. Adult stem cells, which are present in many types of tissue, have been used in treatments for years - the most common being bone-marrow transplants in cancer care - but an embryonic study is a whole new thing. There's a good reason it's being greeted with so much excitement. (See the top 10 medical...
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...Disease, which is effectively what would need to be done to cure it. Stem cell research can be applied to better understand the biological progression of many more complicated diseases, Eggan said in a Sever Hall presentation. He focused on his own research, examining the pathology of spinal muscular atrophy. According to Eggan, “by the time people are sick, a lot of the disease process is already over.” For example, 80 to 90 percent of the relevant brain cells in Parkinson’s Disease have died before the patient begins to exhibit severe...
...mystics whose common function in traditional cultures was that of a healer. Analysis of the woman's remains date her as being 45-years-old, a significant age at a time when life was nasty, brutish and short. She was under five feet tall and deformities in her spinal and pelvic bones give the impression that she may have walked with a limp, or dragged her feet. The presence of the hollowed-out tortoise shells, combined with intact bone pieces of leopards and other creatures - the complete forearm of a wild boar, for example, was placed under the woman...
...SPINAL TRAUMA New "hypothermia therapy" may limit dangerous swelling; in 2007, it helped tight end Kevin Everett walk again after a life-threatening injury...