Grandma's House

Anybody in the mood for a medical miracle? A woman in Korea was injured in an accident in 1985. She has spent the last 19 years in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the waist down. Today she is walking, thanks to stem cell therapy. But wait! It wasn't the all-hailed embryonic stem cells that cured this woman. These stem cells came from an umbilical cord. They were injected into the injury site on this woman's back, and her nerves began to regenerate. Here's hoping the success can be repeated, so maybe people will back off on embryos and find other stem cells work better and more reliably.