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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ranes" data-source="post: 1805528" data-attributes="member: 4826">One particularly sad aspect of the timing of his death that struck me was this: Last week, I happened to catch a BBC news item in which a professor was being interviewed about a medical breakthrough. He was explaining that healthy stem cells extracted from the nasal lining could be re-implanted in a patient's spine and that they could, through this new treatment, reconnect nerve endings, something which until now has been impossible. He said human clinical trials would take another couple of years. Then the interviewer said, "What kinds of people will this treatment help?" The professor answered, "The kind of people it will help are people like Christopher Reeve." He went on to add that he knew Mr Reeve, who supported the professor's work.</blockquote>