My high school hosted the county's special day class for kids with severe cognitive and physical disabilities, a majority from spina bifida. If this stem cell method can actually repair the spinal cord before birth, the quality of life improvement is absolutely enormous.
Incredible to see some promising results in stem cell research. Hopefully a safe and successful application can give a boost to some other areas where stem cells might prove useful (like maybe one day we can regrow damaged heart tissue like this).
My high school hosted the county's special day class for kids with severe cognitive and physical disabilities, a majority from spina bifida. If this stem cell method can actually repair the spinal cord before birth, the quality of life improvement is absolutely enormous.
Incredible to see some promising results in stem cell research. Hopefully a safe and successful application can give a boost to some other areas where stem cells might prove useful (like maybe one day we can regrow damaged heart tissue like this).
I did not even know it was possible to operate on a fetus. Its insane how far we have come. Very promising results!
Interesting - they had done surgery before, but not with stem cells. 6 babies operated on, results were very good and they are recruiting for phase 2