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Anyway, as you'll see in a moment, Susana was able to turn on the flight motor of what's the equivalent of the spinal cord of these flies and get some of the headless bodies to actually take off and fly away.
Let me now introduce you to eLEGS that is worn by Amanda Boxtel that 19 years ago was spinal cord injured, and as a result of that she has not been able to walk for 19 years until now.
As we speak, the world's first human embryonic stem cell trial for spinal cord injury is currently underway following the USFDA approval.
These cells, called glial cells, were once thought to be unimportant structural elements of the spinal cord that did nothing more than hold all the important things together, like the nerves.
Geron, last year, started the first trial using human embryonic stem cells to treat spinal cord injuries.
The spinal cord had breaks.
Well we need a neural interface, a way to connect to our nervous system or our thought processes so that it's intuitive, it's natural, like for you and I. Well the body works by starting a motor command in your brain, going down your spinal cord, out the nerves and to your periphery.
There is the brain stem in between the cerebral cortex and the spinal cord.
And you can see, they're ranging from shoes, rings that were made out of stainless steal, phone covers out of plastic, all the way through to spinal implants, for example, that were created out of medical-grade titanium, and engine parts.
In fact, the whole technology of sperm extraction for spinal cord-injured males was invented by a veterinarian.
And this picture was taken in India in our last field trial, where we had a 90-percent adoption rate where people switched to using our Leveraged Freedom Chair over their normal wheelchair, and this picture specifically is of Ashok, and Ashok had a spinal injury when he fell out of a tree, and he had been working at a tailor, but once he was injured he wasn't able to transport himself from his house over a kilometer to his shop in his normal wheelchair.
I was airlifted from the scene of the accident by a rescue helicopter to a large spinal unit in Sydney.
They picked as much broken bone as they could that had lodged in my spinal cord.
But then the doctor came over to me and she said, "Janine, the operation was a success, and we've picked as much bone out of your spinal cord as we could.
And the question I asked myself is: If I couldn't do that, then who was I? They moved me from intensive care to acute spinal.
I was lying on a thin, hard spinal bed.
I shared the ward with five other people, and the amazing thing is, because we were all lying paralyzed in a spinal ward, we didn't know what each other looked like.
And there were no superficial conversations as we shared our innermost thoughts, our fears, and our hopes for life after the spinal ward.
Well, there wasn't much else to do in the spinal ward, so we did.
And even lying paralyzed in the spinal ward ... there were moments of incredible depth and richness, of authenticity and connection that I had never experienced before.
And each of us knew that when we left the spinal ward, we would never be the same.
In the spinal ward, that's normal.
And then I remembered my friends that were still in the spinal ward, particularly Maria.
And I was a long, long way from that spinal ward.
And then I found myself back at that same school where I'd gone for that very first flight, teaching other people how to fly ... just under 18 months after I'd left the spinal ward.
Although their brains continue to produce those storms and code for movements, they cannot cross a barrier that was created by a lesion on the spinal cord.
And here is actually the spinal column and the whole torso encased in a sandstone block, because she was buried by a river.
They like areas with white-tailed deer, they typically arrive within the first five days following death, they're going to leave an intact spinal column and feathers.
My lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology focuses on spinal cord injury, which affects more than 50,000 people around the world every year, with dramatic consequences for affected individuals, whose life literally shatters in a matter of a handful of seconds.
And for me, the Man of Steel, Christopher Reeve, has best raised the awareness on the distress of spinal cord injured people.
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