[neverdem]

The researchers say they harvested embryonic stem cells from blood taken from umbilical cords and injected them into the spine of a 37-year-old woman named Hwang Mi-soon. Ms. Hwang, who has been chair-bound for nearly two decades, took several steps using a walker at a press conference and declared her progress a “miracle.” And a miracle it is: Cord blood stem cells were injected directly into her injured spinal cord on October 12; a month a half later, she is able to perambulate somewhat.

The Koreans may indeed have made such a claim. It could just be a translating error. The article's author used acceptable terminology later in the paragraph.

[neverdem]

My apologies for the lame links in this thread. The link in comment# 1 works for me. If you go to Reason and try their links, they don't work either. You need to edit the URL address when you get their error message, like the following from the link in the third paragraph:

http://www.reason.com/rb/”http://www.burnham.org/StemCells/StemCellResearch.asp”

That will get you to Reason's error message. Eliminate the first "http://www.reason.com/rb/”" and you have the address that you want.

http://www.burnham.org/StemCells/StemCellResearch.asp”