Paralyzed Woman Walks Again

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Posted by Hemos on Monday November 29, 2004 @12:51PM from the better-than-faith-healing dept.

mgv writes "It's been promised for years, but it's just become a reality. Stem cells taken from cord blood have enabled a paralysed woman in South Korea to walk again for the first time in 20 years. The details are on the Sydney Morning Herald Site which requires registration, but can also be seen on the World Peace Herald. Too late for Christopher Reeve, but not for the thousands of new injuries worldwide each year or the millions of paralysed people from other diseases in the world."

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Frizzle Pizzle! (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday November 29, 2004 @12:53PM (#10943371)

And her first words?

"I'd walk a mile for a Camel!"

Thanks, I'll be here all week. Try the veal.

Yes but (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday November 29, 2004 @12:54PM (#10943373)

Will the legs have a mind of their own since they're using stem cells?

Walking is nice and all.... (Score:5, Funny)

by gunmenrock ( 742305 ) writes: on Monday November 29, 2004 @12:54PM (#10943377)

But can they use stem cells to make my wife put out again?

Mundus vult decipi decipiatur ergo.
-Xaviera Hollander

Re:Walking is nice and all.... (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday November 29, 2004 @12:55PM (#10943387)

Actually, she did yesterday.

Good Science (Score:5, Funny)

by rdc_uk ( 792215 ) writes: on Monday November 29, 2004 @12:59PM (#10943427)

How much better science is this than rubber tails for dolphins?!?

Sounds like good work to me.

There's a much simpler cure for that... (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday November 29, 2004 @12:59PM (#10943429)

Take out the trash, pick up around the house, make dinner, put the kids to bed, and she's all yours, dude.

Re:There's a much simpler cure for that... (Score:5, Funny)

by LDoggg_ ( 659725 ) writes: on Monday November 29, 2004 @01:06PM (#10943514) Homepage

I tried that, but after all that work I was tired and went to bed with a headache.

Umbillical Cord Use Actually WORSE (Score:5, Funny)

by syntap ( 242090 ) writes: on Monday November 29, 2004 @01:09PM (#10943542)

Because now you have to grow the fetus into an embryo, kill it, and harvest the cord to get the cells. How is this better ?!?

Why can't we just get the stem cells from plants? Stems are abundant with them!

Re:Poor Chrisopher Reeve (Score:0, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday November 29, 2004 @01:12PM (#10943581)

If he just coulda stayed seated on the horse, who knows...

Against God's will (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday November 29, 2004 @01:12PM (#10943588)

God intends for the placenta and cord to be eaten by the mother after birth. Any other use is an abomination in the eyes of god.

Re:How? (Score:2, Funny)

by CarbonJackson ( 540580 ) writes: on Monday November 29, 2004 @01:15PM (#10943628) Homepage

It's simple really. You eat a placenta and you regain the ability to walk.

The Paralyzed Will Walk Again (Score:2, Funny)

by TimeTraveler1884 ( 832874 ) writes: on Monday November 29, 2004 @01:17PM (#10943649)

I for one welcome our walking undead overlords.

Re:Lets get this out of the way (Score:3, Funny)

by geoffspear ( 692508 ) writes: on Monday November 29, 2004 @01:18PM (#10943669) Homepage

Also, no significant medical research will take place in the year 2005, because by ALL accounts no research done in 2005 has ever helped anyone, while lots of research done before 2005 has.

Re:Lets get this out of the way (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday November 29, 2004 @01:19PM (#10943690)

Steam Cell Research

Isn't that the project to port Half-Life 2 to the PS/3?

Re:Rise, and WALK! (Score:5, Funny)

by nizo ( 81281 ) writes: on Monday November 29, 2004 @01:20PM (#10943702) Homepage Journal

It looks like people like Christopher Reeve are walking again
Wow, not only fixing paralysis but raising the dead too? Will the wonders of modern science never cease! Then again, I have seen enough zombie movies to know this can't turn out good in the end...

Re:But as far as the Right is concerned... (Score:3, Funny)

by theparanoidcynic ( 705438 ) writes: on Monday November 29, 2004 @01:25PM (#10943773)

Good thing for her hell's as fictional as those WMDs the monkeys are always insisting exist . . . .

Hey fundies: mod me troll if you want, but with karma like mine it doesn't much matter. You can try to piss me off, but I'll probably laugh at you. :)

Nonsense!!!! (Score:3, Funny)

by brian0918 ( 638904 ) writes: <brian0918@@@gmail...com> on Monday November 29, 2004 @01:33PM (#10943867)

I demand that we redefine pi as 3 according to 1 Kings 7:23:

1 Kings 7:23
Now he made the sea of cast metal ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and its height was five cubits, and thirty cubits in circumference.

The responses so far (Score:5, Funny)

by HarveyBirdman ( 627248 ) writes: on Monday November 29, 2004 @01:37PM (#10943905) Journal

- "Hah! Take that redneck Bushies! Nyah nyah nyah neener neener neener" --- 25%
- "Uh, this is the sort of stem cells the Bush Administration supports, you ignorant dumbass." --- 25%
- "Well, yeah, but, Dumbya cut funding! And this is you: duh doo duh doo duh doo" --- 25%
- "Uh, Bush was the first to federally fund ANY stem cell research. And this is you: bibblebibblebibble pppbbbffffttttt!" --- 25%
And then the same people wonder why nothing works right anymore.

Re:Poor Chrisopher Reeve (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday November 29, 2004 @01:44PM (#10943993)

the opposite of christopher reeve?
that'd be christopher walken!

RIP

Re:Umbillical Cord Use Actually WORSE -ot (Score:3, Funny)

by syntap ( 242090 ) writes: on Monday November 29, 2004 @01:53PM (#10944081)

The comedy is in the people posting to correct me on point #1 but not on point #2.

Re:Dictionary.com (Score:2, Funny)

by cj_goth ( 525978 ) writes: on Monday November 29, 2004 @02:07PM (#10944207) Journal

Really? Next you'll be telling me that colour doesn't have a "u" in it ...

What is the problem? (Score:5, Funny)

by TiggertheMad ( 556308 ) writes: on Monday November 29, 2004 @02:17PM (#10944309) Journal

But can they use stem cells to make my wife put out again?

I don't get it. I have no problem getting your wife to put out. All my friends say she is insatiable in bed.

Re:Adult stem cells (Score:2, Funny)

by JudgeFurious ( 455868 ) writes: on Monday November 29, 2004 @02:28PM (#10944427)

For some reason the only thing I can think of when I read "too often scientists will ask themselves "can I do this", instead of "should I do this?" is....

"Yeah, but John, if the Pirates of the caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists."

Not sure how that connects but well, there it is. Are the Pirates animatronic bodies using stem cells maybe?

Re:Just a side note.... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday November 29, 2004 @03:10PM (#10944864)

>> Who was the last non-christian president.

Bush. I can't think of a commandment he hasn't broken ten times over.

>> When were federal offices last closed on Kwanza?

Kwanza is a fake holiday invented in 1966. You might as well blame them for not being closed on your birthday.

>> Why were blue laws on Sunday?

Blue laws were never nation wide.

>> Our foriegn policy has continued to support Isreal (for no good reason)

No good reason? The jews were on that land about two thousand years before the terroris^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h muslims showed up. It's their land. Not supporting israel is supporting terrorism and land theft.

Re:Adult stem cells (Score:3, Funny)

by meringuoid ( 568297 ) writes: on Monday November 29, 2004 @05:10PM (#10946141)

OK, well then let's put it this way.
If we don't play God, who will?

Re:In what way did they regulate the research? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday November 29, 2004 @05:39PM (#10946432)

"Half the country says abortion is murder; half does not."

A lot more than half, say "duh, I don't care about anything."

But what about prayer??? (Score:3, Funny)

by Money for Nothin' ( 754763 ) writes: on Monday November 29, 2004 @06:42PM (#10947326)

What, you mean prayer doesn't actually help the blind to see, the deaf to hear, or the paraplegic to walk again?

You mean the solutions to these problems are found in *science* and *medicine*, not in religious voodoo and mysticism? Incredible! God forbid!

Yeah... (Score:2, Funny)

by yogikoudou ( 806237 ) writes: on Monday November 29, 2004 @07:44PM (#10948078) Homepage

Next you'll be telling me some messiah was brougth back from the dead...
Hell don't believe that crap..

Re:WWLBSN? (Score:2, Funny)

by goon america ( 536413 ) writes: on Monday November 29, 2004 @09:23PM (#10948860) Homepage Journal

But Bush didn't cut funding for stem cells! He merely threw up major obstacles to it! Sheesh!

Re:Adult stem cells (Score:3, Funny)

by NanoGator ( 522640 ) writes: on Tuesday November 30, 2004 @03:41AM (#10950681) Homepage Journal

"The U.S. Federal government is not providing tax relief to religious organizations, it has made them exempt from having to pay taxes."

Well that really shot his point down.

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Frizzle Pizzle! (Score:1, Funny)

Yes but (Score:1, Funny)

Walking is nice and all.... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Walking is nice and all.... (Score:2, Funny)

Good Science (Score:5, Funny)

There's a much simpler cure for that... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:There's a much simpler cure for that... (Score:5, Funny)

Umbillical Cord Use Actually WORSE (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Poor Chrisopher Reeve (Score:0, Funny)

Against God's will (Score:1, Funny)

Re:How? (Score:2, Funny)

The Paralyzed Will Walk Again (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Lets get this out of the way (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Lets get this out of the way (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Rise, and WALK! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:But as far as the Right is concerned... (Score:3, Funny)

Nonsense!!!! (Score:3, Funny)

The responses so far (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Poor Chrisopher Reeve (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Umbillical Cord Use Actually WORSE -ot (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Dictionary.com (Score:2, Funny)

What is the problem? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Adult stem cells (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Just a side note.... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Adult stem cells (Score:3, Funny)

Re:In what way did they regulate the research? (Score:1, Funny)

But what about prayer??? (Score:3, Funny)

Yeah... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:WWLBSN? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Adult stem cells (Score:3, Funny)

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