http://m.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/sunday-explainer-how-a-paralysed-man-walked-again-20141025-11b1ci.html

A paralysed man has begun to walk again after pioneering surgery injected cells from his nasal cavity into his spine.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMJLg5K40U0

Yes. Read about that the other day. Very, very interesting that it has worked.

I suppose I had better get in first (God I hate being the straight man here)

Wow, so, DV, how does he smell?

They’re implanting stem cells harvested from his nose into his spine. Yes?

Rule 303 said:

They’re implanting stem cells harvested from his nose into his spine. Yes?

Olfactory brain cells AFAICT.

Rule 303 said:

They’re implanting stem cells harvested from his nose into his spine. Yes?

yes

Witty Rejoinder said:

Rule 303 said:

They’re implanting stem cells harvested from his nose into his spine. Yes?

Olfactory brain cells AFAICT.

WTF?

ear nose and throat specialists unite!

Witty Rejoinder said:

Olfactory brain cells AFAICT.

Well that’s damn interesting.

I saw a doco about 5 years ago where surgeons were getting amazing results just by packing the damaged area of spinal cord with stem cells.

Rule 303 said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

Olfactory brain cells AFAICT.

Well that’s damn interesting.

I saw a doco about 5 years ago where surgeons were getting amazing results just by packing the damaged area of spinal cord with stem cells.

now it is raining inside.. that’s kind of a shame

Rule 303 said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

Olfactory brain cells AFAICT.

Well that’s damn interesting.

I saw a doco about 5 years ago where surgeons were getting amazing results just by packing the damaged area of spinal cord with stem cells.

they’re using scaffolding now from different areas of the body, the removed a nasal gland of some sort, grew the cells in a dish, then used the scaffold to give the cells something to grow on to bridge the nerve gap.. apparently he’s regained quite a bit of sensation and function.. exciting times..

Dropbear said:

Rule 303 said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

Olfactory brain cells AFAICT.

Well that’s damn interesting.

I saw a doco about 5 years ago where surgeons were getting amazing results just by packing the damaged area of spinal cord with stem cells.

they’re using scaffolding now from different areas of the body, the removed a nasal gland of some sort, grew the cells in a dish, then used the scaffold to give the cells something to grow on to bridge the nerve gap.. apparently he’s regained quite a bit of sensation and function.. exciting times..

indeed.

On the video they say they use nerve cells from the brain’s olfactory bulb, which unlike other nerve cells constantly regenerate.

Witty Rejoinder said:

On the video they say they use nerve cells from the brain’s olfactory bulb, which unlike other nerve cells constantly regenerate.

It is what they were wanting.so, yes.

Witty Rejoinder said:

On the video they say they use nerve cells from the brain’s olfactory bulb, which unlike other nerve cells constantly regenerate.

Having finally read the article it’s all there too.

dv said:

http://m.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/sunday-explainer-how-a-paralysed-man-walked-again-20141025-11b1ci.html

A paralysed man has begun to walk again after pioneering surgery injected cells from his nasal cavity into his spine.

You do realise, I hope, that this in no way constitutes proof that stem cell therapy works for spinal repair. There is already good evidence that it doesn’t, the cells contract when severed and can’t regrow past the clot without a scaffold. On the other hand, IMHO the delay caused by scientific rigour in medicine (say three sigma double blind) is unethical.

Dropbear said:

I suppose I had better get in first (God I hate being the straight man here)

Wow, so, DV, how does he smell?

Since dv seems to have left the building:

Awful!!

It’s hard, unrewarding work, but someone has to do it.

Dropbear said:

I suppose I had better get in first (God I hate being the straight man here)

Wow, so, DV, how does he smell?

Seems no one is riseing to the bait Droppy, allow me to help

Wow, so, DV, how does he smell?

Answer, terrible.

We are alone in the universe: Brian Cox

The process which led to the creation of humankind on earth was a fluke – and it is highly unlikely it has been repeated anywhere else in the universe.

That is the view of English physicist Professor Brian Cox, who made the assertion in an episode of BBC’s Human Universe.

Professor Cox thwarted suggestions alien life was a possibility and said he believed humans were the only form of life in the universe, despite the astronomical number of other planets in the galaxy.

The presenter and scientist, who also appeared on the ABC’s Q&A program last week, blamed a series of “evolutionary bottlenecks” as the main reason no extraterrestrial life has been discovered.

“There is only one advanced technological civilisation in this galaxy and there has only ever been one – and that’s us,” Professor Cox said. “We are unique.

“It’s a dizzying thought. There are billions of planets out there, surely there must have been a second genesis?

“But we must be careful because the story of life on this planet shows that the transition from single-celled life to complex life may not have been inevitable.”

Professor Cox went on to say that the extinction of dinosaurs, believed by scientists to have been caused by a meteor impact, allowed mammals and ultimately humans to dominate the planet.

“We still struggle to understand how this happened,” he said. “It’s incredibly unusual.

“We’re confident this only happened once in the oceans of the primordial earth. Life here did squeeze through.”

Professor Cox’s views are in stark contrast to those of astrophysicists Dr Timothy Brandt and Dr David Spiege of Princeton University, who last month made the claim that our best chance of finding aliens, if they exist at all, lies in the examination of plant life on planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets.

They said if alien life existed on exoplanets, it might be possible to detect traces of water, oxygen and chlorophyll.

Meanwhile, NASA has offered a more widely accepted prediction; that one hundred million worlds in our galaxy are capable and fit to host alien life.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/we-are-alone-in-the-universe-brian-cox-20141027-11crqq.html

bob(from black rock) said:

Dropbear said:

I suppose I had better get in first (God I hate being the straight man here)

Wow, so, DV, how does he smell?

Seems no one is riseing to the bait Droppy, allow me to help

Wow, so, DV, how does he smell?

Answer, terrible.

coughs politely

Oops. Fred Wong.

There is in truth some skepticism that this therapy caused the improvement.