Month: October 2014

CNN NEWS, October 23, 2014. A ground-breaking cell transplant has allowed a paralyzed man to walk again, researchers announced Tuesday. Polish man Darek Fidyka, 38, had been left paralyzed from the chest down after a 2010 knife attack caused an 8mm gap in his spinal cord. An initial 13 months of rehabilitation followed by an…

By Saundra Young, CNN NEWS, October 17, 2014. Researchers say that human embryonic stem cells have restored the sight of several nearly blind patients – and that their latest study shows the cells are safe to use long-term. According to a report published this week in The Lancet, the researchers transplanted stem cells into 18…