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Biotech / Medical : Geron Corp.

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To: FJB who wrote (3238)	4/17/2011 11:19:41 PM
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washingtonpost.com washingtonpost.com And although his doctors have stressed that they gave him a very low dose, primarily to look for adverse side effects, Atchison thinks that the cells might already be helping him. In studies involving rats, partially paralyzed animals that received cells regained the ability to move. In recent weeks, after months of not feeling or not being able to move his body below his chest, Atchison said, he has begun to get some very slight sensation: He can feel relief when he lifts a bowling ball off his lap and discern discomfort when he pulls on hairs on some parts of his legs. He has also strengthened his abdomen. “That’s something that just happened recently. It’s just slowly progressed more and more,” he said, noting that rodents did not start to regain movement until nine months after treatment.

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