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The Guardian - Culture: Film Edit Unfollow 'This is such an important moment': how stem cell research is transforming medicine by Adrian Horton Nov 4, 2021 A new documentary shines a light on the breakthroughs that are being made or are close to being made in finding cures to previously incurable diseases Ryan Custer was a freshman basketball player at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, when, in April 2017, he jumped into a pool at a house party and shattered his C5 vertebra. Paralyzed from the chest down, Custer entered a clinical trial in Chicago for an experimental stem cell therapy that could restore limited nerve function one centimeter – shoulder shrug, bicep motion, tricep use – at a time. Cheryl Wiers, a mother in her 40s, saw her aggressive non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma return twice, with a vengeance. Chemotherapy wasn’t working, but a clinical trial for a transplant of stem cells at City of Hope medical center in Duarte, California, offered hope. Continue reading... Continue Reading Save Share

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