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CORTNEY'S WISH: After stem-cell surgery, the wait

LISBON, Portugal -- A tissue sample no bigger than the tip of her baby finger, taken from high inside Cortney Hoffman's nose, holds hope of her recovery from a paralyzing spinal cord injury. The specimen contained more than 2 million adult stem cells, some of the near-magical components of the human body because of their ability to take on tasks of other cells where they are transplanted.
 

Place them in the heart and they help perform blood-pumping functions.
 

Put them in a damaged spinal cord like doctors did... 
 

posted @ Monday, January 10, 2005 12:00 AM by host

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