Pig foetus may help quadriplegic walk

Foetal pig cells have been injected into the spine of a 50-year-old quadriplegic man in an experimental procedure that hospital officials say was the first of its kind.

Pig foetus may help quadriplegic walk

Foetal pig cells have been injected into the spine of a 50-year-old quadriplegic man in an experimental procedure that hospital officials say was the first of its kind.

If it works, the cells will grow as they would in a developing pig and create a new connection in Charles Dederick’s spine, damaged in a 1997 motorcycle accident.

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