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HOPE: Paralysed man walks again after pioneering spinal surgery

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A man paralysed from the chest down has managed to walk again following pioneering cell transplant surgery. Darek Fidyka, 38, from Bulgaria, was paralysed in a knife attack in 2010, but can now walk using a frame and leg braces. Surgeons in Poland transplanted nerve cells from his nose into his severed spinal column where they started to grow back and restore function


 

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