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Stem cells heal paralysis, and are tasty too!

June 21st 2006 12:28
Partially paralysed rats have been told to stand upright on their feet ... and they leaped and walked. This breakthrough in stem cell research, led by neurologist Dr. Douglas Kerr of John Hopkins University, demonstrates the possibility of humans being able to repair damage from nerve-destroying illnesses or from spinal cord injuries in the future.

"This is an important first step, but it really is a first step, a proof of principle that ... you can rewire part of the nervous system," said Dr. Kerr said to citc=w19-502-ak-0000" target="_blank">Discovery Science.


But wait, there's more from the stem cell world.

Ready or not, food grown from stem cells may soon find its way onto our dinner tables. "A single cell could theoretically produce enough meat to feed the world's population for a year," Wired.com reports. And test-tube dinners aren't too far away from being a reality either.

Paul Kosnik, vice president of engineering at Tissue Genesis in Hawaii, told Wired.com: "All of the technology exists today to make ground meat products in vitro. We believe the goal of a processed meat product is attainable in the next five years if funding is available and the R& is pursued aggressively."
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