September 29, 2005

Born with our repair kits

This is great news. Korean scientists have used umbilical cord blood stem cells to restore feeling and mobility to a spinal cord injury. Hyscience has some details of the "stunning benefits" with none of the nasty ethical problems. Could it be that we all are born with our own repair kits in our umbilical cords? Posted by Jill Fallon at September 29, 2005 1:16 AM | Permalink