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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2198176/Hope-paralysed-patients-stem-cell-jab-restores-feeling-patients-damaged-spines.html
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2198176/Hope-paralysed-patients-stem-cell-jab-restores-feeling-patients-damaged-spines.html#ixzz25fPiZeHN
Hope for paralysed patients as stem cell jab restores feeling to patients with damaged spines
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Patients with broken spines have reported having feeling restored to areas that had previously been paralysed, after receiving stem cell injections.
Scientists said they were 'encouraged' after two of three patients injected with donated foetal brain tissue responded to treatment at Balgrist University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland.
Each patient had around 20million neural stem cells delivered directly into their injured spinal cords between four and eight months after they were injured.
Early tests suggest stem cells could restore feeling to people with damaged spinal cords
Before the treatment none of the patients could feel anything below the nipples. Just three months after therapy two of the patients reported feeling some sensation. By six months they could detect both touch and heat between the chest and belly button. The third patient detected no changes.
Stephen Huhn, vice president of StemCells in Newark, California, that is developing the treatment told the New Scientist: 'The face we've seen responses to light touch, heat and electrical impulses so far down in two of the patients is very unexpected.
'They're really close to normal in those areas now in their sensitivity.'
The team said stem cells could be helping to restore myelin insulation to damaged nerves, which would improve the communications of brain signals. Or they could be reducing the inflammation on existing nerves.
'We clearly need to collect more data to establish efficacy, but we are encouraged,' Mr Huhn said.
He said the company will follow the patients for many years to see if feeling continues. It will also test the therapy on nine more patients with less severe spinal cord injuries.
StemCells is the first company to launch a neural stem-cell clinical trial since the U.S biotech company Geron abandoned the first ever trial in November 2011.
Geron had injected four patients with the stem cell therapy who displayed no ill effects. However, they had also not seen any improvements despite promising tests on rats.
The company blamed economic conditions and said it wanted to concentrate resources on two promising cancer drugs instead.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2198176/Hope-paralysed-patients-stem-cell-jab-restores-feeling-patients-damaged-spines.html#ixzz25fPiZeHN
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mean that I agree with their content or support it. "Selected by RAEL"
means that I believe it is important for the people of this planet to
know about what people think or do, even when what they think or do is
completely stupid and against our philosophy. When I selected articles
in the past about stupid Christian fundamentalists in America praying
for rain, I am sure no Rael-Science reader was stupid enough to believe
that I was supporting praying to change the weather. So, when I select
articles which are in favor of drugs, anti-Semitic, anti-Jewish, racist,
revisionist, or inciting hatred against any group or religion, or any
other stupid article, it does not mean that I support them. It just
means that it is important for all human beings to know about them.
Common sense, which is usually very good among our readers, is good
enough to understand that. When, like in the recent articles on drug
decriminalization, it is necessary to make it clearer, I add a comment,
which in this case was very clear: I support decriminalizing all drugs,
as it is stupid to throw depressed and sad people (as only depressed and
sad people use drugs) in prison and ruin their life with a criminal
record. That does not mean that there is any change to the Message which
says clearly that we must not use any drug except for medical purposes.
The same applies to the freedom of expression which must be absolute.
That does not mean again of course that I agree with anti-Jews,
anti-Semites, racists of any kind or anti-Raelians. But by knowing your
enemies or the enemies of your values, you are better equipped to fight
them. With love and respect of course, and with the wonderful sentence
of the French philosopher Voltaire in mind: "I disapprove of what you
say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it".
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"Ethics" is simply a last-gasp attempt by deist conservatives and
orthodox dogmatics to keep humanity in ignorance and obscurantism,
through the well tried fermentation of fear, the fear of science and
new technologies.
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history,
it is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
On the contrary, let us embrace Science and the new technologies
unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the
myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease,
death and the sweat of labour.
Rael
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