Nearly 250,000 people in the United States live with a disability related to a spinal cord injury while approximately 11,000 Americans are hospitalized for a spinal cord injury each year. These injuries often result in paralysis. As of now spinal cord damage is irreversible. However, recently advances in medical science have given paraplegics a new hope.
In the past ten years, as embryonic stem cell research has developed, new and exciting possibilities have arisen. Several studies of human fetal cell transplants have been carried out in Sweden, Russia, China, and the United States showing that transplanted fetal cells will engraft in human spinal cords. On top of these studies, scientists have performed clinical trials of stem cell tra
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