Stem Cells Restore Feeling In Paraplegic

Vicissidude writes "According to WorldNetDaily scientists in Korea report using umbilical cord blood stem cells to restore feeling and mobility to a spinal-cord injury patient. The research, published in the peer-reviewed journal Cytotherapy, centered on a woman who had been a paraplegic 19 years due to an accident. After an infusion of umbilical cord blood stem cells, stunning results were recorded: 'The patient could move her hips and feel her hip skin on day 15 after transplantation. On day 25 after transplantation her feet responded to stimulation.'"

In Soviet Russia

[Anonymous Coward]

In Soviet Russia, cell STEMS YOU!!!

Wow

[kushboy]

I don't know much about this kind of stuff, but that seems pretty amazing. Does anyone with more knowledge know how amazing it is?

It's Eviiiiilll, don't you all see?

[Audent]

Come on, helping people regain sensation in their long-dormant limbs? Where can it lead?

Oh the humanity!

Won't someone think of the children!?

etc.

ahem. Sorry. pre-emptive sarcasm mode, OFF!

Re:Wow

[Anonymous Coward]

I am more knowledgeable and yes this is very amazing.

Stem cells work!

[redgopher]

So then, if the stem cells are placed next to a Shakey's Pizza, they would become another Shakey's Pizza! And you'd have your own Shakey's Pizza where you didn't have to charge yourself to eat!

Re:What type of stem cells?

[Atzanteol]

Vicissidude writes "According to WorldNetDaily scientists in Korea report using umbilical cord blood stem cells to restore feeling and mobility to a spinal-cord injury patient. The research, published in the peer-reviewed journal Cytotherapy, centered on a woman who had been a paraplegic 19 years due to an accident. After an infusion of umbilical cord blood stem cells, stunning results were recorded: 'The patient could move her hips and feel her hip skin on day 15 after transplantation. On day 25 after transplantation her feet responded to stimulation.'"

Yeah, if only somebody could make it clear what type of stem cells they were! I mean, that's something you think could even get into the story summary!

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10% General antireligious screeds. Woof! Bark! (modded Flamebait)
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Re:It's Eviiiiilll, don't you all see?

[Pusene]

In other news, the makers of Viagra, Pfizer, is suing Korea for copyright infringement. An official is quoted saying: "Only we are the makers of medication which makes sensation return to long-dormant limbs."

Re:Benefit of the doubt

[Alien Being]

"hamstrung by political agendas"

s/political/religious/

Re:What type of stem cells?

[HappyProle]

I'm pretty sure they were those abominable asexual stem-cells. They sicken me, what with all their reproducing outside the sacred bonds of marriage.

Not Safe For Work

[umbrellasd]

That first link displayed something very...interesting on my workplace monitor. No idea why it happened or if others experience the same thing but...seeing a man from that particular angle and with that particular aperture... *shiver*

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Re:Benefit of the doubt

[Anonymous Coward]

THERE. ARE. FOUR. LIGHTS!

Re:Slashdot Hits Rock Bottom RE Goatse

[Dread_ed]

The thirt time I ever experienced goatse.cx was on a frontpage slashdot story. It looked like a credible link to a major news outlet.

Unfortunately I was trying to help a friend's family to understand how a news site like slashdot worked at the time. I had a conservative 40ish couple and a 19 year old girl looking on as I clicked this link.

It was very difficult to explain just exactly what happened as the site came up. I haven't been able to sort it all out even to this day.

Re:Extremely sceptical

[fbjon]

It works in the same way as how distant galaxies move away from us. The distant galaxies are moving away at faster than light speed, but it's because the space in between is stretching, not because of actual FTL movement of the galaxy.

In the same way, a kid can grow fast, and the nerves will seem to grow faster suddenly, but actually they are merely stretching out. This is what causes hypertension by the time they reach their early teens.

As the kid gets older, and eventually middle-aged, the nerves grow and catch up with development. In later years, the nerves will have grown so long that singnals will take longer time to reach their destination, causing longer reaction times. On the other hand, there is the benefit from increased wisdom, coming from the ability to hold longer thoughts in the nerves.

As the peron is reaching the endpoint of his life, at around 80 years of age on average, the nerves will have grown immensely, making him a treasure trove of deep thought and information. This can be hard to ascertain though, as the sheer nerve-length means they now have to grow in circles in the limited space of the human body. This means that you will often hear the wisdom of the past, as thoughts that started in one end, reach the other. The cramped conditions also predispose for spontaneous reconnections between nerves, causing apparently random changes of subject. Moreover, the spiralling structure of the nerve system entail a circular nature of the information coming out, meaning you'll have to listen to the same story multiple times.