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...Huang's novel procedure involves injecting cells from a fetal olfactory bulb, the part of the brain where nose cells terminate, into the damaged area of the spinal cord. Huang says the transplanted olfactory cells help repair damaged nerve cells in the spine. Although he hasn't yet published his findings, the results so far seem compelling. "I'm pretty convinced of definite sensory improvement and modest motor improvement" in Huang's patients, says Dr. Wise Young, a prominent expert in spinal injuries and chairman of cell biology and neuroscience at Rutgers University (where Huang studied under Young...
...Huang is branching out. Eighteen months ago he began performing the surgery on patients suffering from the degenerative disease ALS, better known as Lou Gehrig's disease. ALS kills most victims within five years. By transplanting OEG cells to just below the cortex of the brain and in the spine, Huang claims to have slowed the progress of the disease in "several" of his 40 patients, and offers video evidence of one who regained the ability to walk. Another patient, Chicago-based playwright Ben Byer, was diagnosed with ALS in 2002 and underwent surgery by Huang on July 20. Byer...
Constructing transmission towers has clearly not been a priority around here. I should not be surprised—after all, this is the West Coast, one of the most rugged and remote places in New Zealand. A land of rainforests, rivers and glaciers between the Tasman Sea and the spine of the formidable Southern Alps, the West Coast is home to some of New Zealand’s most spectacular landscape. By night, mighty mountains recede into the darkness. Yet I can still feel their unmistakable presence...
Franken might as well be referring to the American media. The theme of the event appears to be “Why are journalists such idiots?” Arianna Huffington, she of the exotically ambiguous accent, suggests that American reporters need a “spine transplant...
...three and four respectively. (They plan on reprinting volume two at the same size and price as the others.) Printed as paperbacks with an ugly cover design, none of the volumes can be distinguished from the others except by careful examination of the subtitle and the numeral on the spine. Furthermore, without the promise of the remaining seven volumes, VIZ has almost completely botched an opportunity to distinguish themselves from their principal competition (TOKYOPOP) as a publisher of classy, adult Japanese comic...