PARALYSED MAN WALKS AGAIN AFTER CELL TRANSPLANT (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Tuesday, October 21, 2014, 10:04

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.

The treatment, a world first, was carried out by surgeons in Poland in collaboration with scientists in London.

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