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  • Paralyzed farmer puts his faith in stem cell transplant

    10/29/2006 8:36:51 PM PST · by joshhiggins · 5 replies · 725+ views
    Waterloo/Cedar Falls Courier ^ | October 29, 2006 | Dennis Magee
    (Following is excerpted from near the end of a lengthy human interest story, I apologize for all the editing to capture the key points) ...Dr. Lima's procedure, called olfactory mucosa transplantation, differs dramatically from what generates the most heat in the debate, embryonic stem cell research. Lima's process uses adult stem cells taken from the patients themselves.(snip) ...I had a senator up there screaming at me," she says(snip)...."I was foolish enough to stand in front of the senators and say using a person's own stem cells is safer," she says. Peduzzi-Nelson testified "the most profitable, not the best, treatment for...