Reply #16: There are human treatments going on now [View All]

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http://my.webmd.com/content/article/89/100250.htm

Saw this on TV last week too. There are two women who sustained spinal column fractures, who were told they'd never walk again, but they volunteered for this experimental procedure where stem cells were injected into their spines in the neighborhood of the break, and they've regained some mobility and sensation-- one woman can even walk (with braces).

Disclaimers: there have been more than two experimental subjects, and these two are the big success stories so far; this article says more people have regained sensation than mobility.

Also, the technique uses the patient's own stem cells, obviously not embryonic, harvested from way up in the nasal cavity.

But given this, I would say the ten year claim is plausible.