Ian Jeffery
Block 2
After reading my article, I have found that in May 2001, a nine year old boy who was crippled in a wheelchair was injected with stem cells in Moscow. The nine year old child began to suffer from a disease that causes degeneration of parts of the brain that control muscle movements and speech. When diagnosed, you can get poor balance, impaired immune function, and the appearance of red spider veins all over the eyes, ears and cheeks. So far there are no treatments for it and the prognosis is grim. He then was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2005. It grew out of the stem cells in his brain. It was removed in surgery, but afterward it continues to grow back.
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