While the ethical and political debates rage over stem cells from human embryos, scientists continue to discover how those cells work and what they can do.
About 2 weeks before President Bush made his decision to fund certain kinds of stem cell research (SN: 8/18/01, p. 105), investigators from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore reported at a meeting that injections of human embryonic stem cells restored some mobility to paralyzed rodents.
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