German surgeons repair skull with stem cells

[bin.dare]

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2004/1217/breaking23.htm

Surgeons have used stem cells from fat to help repair skull damage in a seven-year-old girl in Germany.
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The girl had been injured two years before in a fall, which destroyed several areas of her skull totaling nearly 19 square inches, the German researchers reported.

Other surgeons had failed to correct the defects, and the girl wore a protective helmet. Her brain could sometimes be seen pulsating through the missing areas of her skull.

But several weeks after the stem-cell surgery, she was able to leave her helmet behind, the researchers report in the December issue of the Journal of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery.

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Dr Howaldt and his colleagues recovered bone from the girl's pelvis and about 1.5 ounces of fat tissue from her buttocks.
The bone was milled into chips about one-tenth of an inch long and placed in the missing areas of the skull. Then surgeons added the stem cells to the bone chips.
Dr Howaldt said the bone chips appeared to instruct the stem cells to make more bone.

[aquart]

1. Wow.

Look where the innovation is. Not here.

[tanyev]

2. Somebody tell Laura

so she can stop using that line about stem cell research giving people "false hope".

[JPace]

3. Remember when America was the land of innovation?

Why have science? Christian Fundamentalists think prayer is all we need.

I miss my country....where did it go?

[Cheswick2.0]

11. yup, we used to trust that we would be at the forefront of

scientific research, if not leading at least keeping pace. Now we are a nation of idiots.

[mairceridwen]

4. she gots babies in her brain

thems the sign of the BEAST


kidding.


good story, thanks.

[ElephantCanBiteMe]

6. How Cool is THAT?

It just goes to show - the small minded little bigots spew their propoganda and make it out like we are baby killers for wanting to find viable solutions that ARE out there -

And in fact without that operation perhaps that little girl would have died.

Who's the freaking baby killer now?

Chimp MUST go home to the zoo!

Debby

[absolutezero]

7. exactly

Stem cell research is going to revolutionize medicine, and the republicans are doing their best to stop it

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[reprobate]

10. Let me sneak in a Welcome to DU among the bush bashing.

Although the bush bashing is so well deserved, and it feels so good, Welcome to Democratic Underground.

May all your posts be well accepted and may you receive no flames.

[fob]

5. With this story I say Hooray for that little girl and others in similar

situations everywhere.

I also say FUCK YOU, YOU BIG FUCKING PUS BAG LAURA PICKLES bush*!!

[ElephantCanBiteMe]

8. HeadBanger

OOOps I meant to say Mrs. Chimp there. ;-)

[ElephantCanBiteMe]

9. Thanks!

Thanks for the welcome. I got this site from someone yesterday and really didn't even want to go to sleep last night I was having so much fun reading it all!

[Cheswick2.0]

12. I wonder what this means for vertebral degeneration?

I wonder what it means for nerve regeneration?
Think of people walking again.

[fob]

13. Are you trying to give people HOPE in bush*s amerika?

Beware the knock on the door, have a bag packed and ready for whaatever the durrent climate is on Cuba's coast!

Viva Libertad!