Researchers at Tokyo's Keio University have conducted the first clinical study demonstrating that stem cell treatment allowed a paralyzed man to stand independently after a spinal cord injury. This treatment involved injecting approximately two million reprogrammed iPS cells into the injury site, aimed at producing neurons. Of the four participants, two exhibited motor function improvements, though experts caution that larger trials are needed for definitive proof. Additionally, the improvements may not solely be attributed to the treatment itself, and the results have yet to undergo peer review.
...the man is now learning how to walk through rehabilitation.
...the researchers turned these cells into neural precursor cells in a lab and then injected them into the site of patients' injuries.
it'll take larger trials to establish whether the improvements were in fact the result of the treatment.
The results of the research also have yet to be peer-reviewed.
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