A paralysed man has been able to walk again after a pioneering therapy that involved transplanting cells from his nasal cavity into his spinal cord. Darek Fidyka, who was paralyzed from the chest down in a knife attack in 2010, can now walk using a frame.
A joint team of British and Polish doctors have for the first time ever reversed a complete spinal paralysis by using nerve-supporting cells from the nose of Darek Fidyka, a Bulgarian fire fighter man who was injured four years ago and has been in a wheelchair since 2010, to create a pathway along which the broken tissue was able to regrow.
