Novel cell therapy enables paralyzed man the ability to walk and feel his lower body again

10/21/2014 - 00:00


By Fergus Walsh -

A paralysed man has been able to walk again after a pioneering therapy that involved transplanting cells from his nasal cavity into his spinal cord.

Darek Fidyka, who was paralysed from the chest down in a knife attack in 2010, can now walk using a frame.

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Ref: Transplantation of autologous olfactory ensheathing cells in complete human spinal cord injury.                            doi: 10.3727/096368912X663532.