Paralysed man walks again after breakthrough spinal treatment

A paralysed Bulgarian man can walk again after receiving revolutionary treatment in Poland in a breakthrough hailed by one of the British scientists responsible as "more impressive than a man walking on the Moon". Undated picture released by the BBC shows Bulgarian man Darek Fidyka walking with the aid of leg-braces and parallel bars at the Akron Neuro-Rehabilitation Center in Wroclaw, Poland after treatment to repair his severed spinal column Darek Fidyka was paralysed from the chest down following a knife attack in 2010, but can now walk using a frame after nerve cells from his nose were transplanted into his severed spinal column, according to research published in the journal Cell Transplantation on Tuesday.

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