Jasper is just one of the injured dogs that this research team has been able to help walk following an injection of nasal cells:
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Whether you love or hate modern art, you should find this amusing.
For the past few days I have been in contact with Mr. Richard Mullens a school teacher in Brookeland Tx. Brookeland Tx, is an incredibly "Conservative" area of Texas, and only 16 miles up the road from Jasper Tx. the scene of several incidents of racial violence and murder.
Last week, a jury in Chicago awarded $30.4 million to chemical-flavoring plant worker Gerardo Solis, 45, who suffers from the disabling lung disease bronchiolitis obliterans.
It's an exciting study. I do have to point out that the olfactory ensheathing cells used in this study are not actually stem cells, though a lot of news reports have stated that they are.
It's worth remembering that it took decades of research - mostly in rats - to take this technique to the point where it could be assessed in a veterinatry trial http://speakingofresearch.com/2012/11/19/paralysed-dogs-walk-again-than…
Too often people see the dramatic headline, but not the years of hard graft that led to the breakthrough.