[Niuhuru]

Kind of makes my eyes wet and warms my little heart. This is such great news and wonderful to read amongst all the bad news.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

No time to read....Adult stem cells, I hope?

[poobear]

“It involves injecting the spinal canal with cells taken from the umbilical cords of healthy babies. The cells are then used to rebuild the optic nerves.”

The little girl is walking, talking and holding on to objects better as well. Awesome!

What are we doing here in the states regarding umbilical cord blood treatments?

[VRWCmember]

Umbilical cord stem cells; NOT embryonic stem cells. Imagine that!

[BRITinUSA]

Key point from the article:

It involves injecting the spinal canal with cells taken from the umbilical cords of healthy babies. The cells are then used to rebuild the optic nerves.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

These were umbilical cord stem cells.

Another blow to the embryonic stem cell crowd.

Hope her improvement lasts.

[skeeter]

Paging Michael J Fox.

[Running On Empty]

Marking

[isthisnickcool]

I tried to donate our umbilical cords when our daughters were born but our hospitals didn’t participate in the collection (not many do), so...not much?

Anyone having a child would be well advised to have the umbilical cord harvested and then stored away.

I watched a beautiful little girl slowly die from cancer. For a period of time the only thing that kept her alive was that her parents had her cord blood harvested and frozen.