Stem Cells Bring Back Feeling For Paralysed Patients, StemCells Inc. Reveals

Patients with broken spines have reported having feeling restored to areas that had previously been paralysed, after receiving stem cell injections. Scientists said they were 'encouraged' after two of three patients injected with donated foetal brain tissue responded to treatment at Balgrist University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland. Each patient had around 20million neural stem cells delivered directly into their injured spinal cords between four and eight months after they were injured.

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