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About 10,000 Americans suffer spinal cord injuries each year. Spinal cord injury results from a traumatic event, damaging cells within the spinal cord and possibly severing the nerve tracks that relay signals up and down the spinal cord. The FDA recently approved the first clinical trial using human embryonic stem cells, which now appear safe enough to use on humans. What does this mean for patients with spinal cord injuries? Learn from experts about aging with a spinal cord injury, stem cell transplant and why advances in treatments are encouraging about the future.

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