Using umbilical cord blood stem cells--not embryonic ones--scientists in Korea have restored a measure of feeling and mobility to a woman who has been paraplegic for nineteen years.  Here are the unbelievable results:

• Within seven days of the stem cell infusion, doctors noticed motor activity.
• At 13 days, the patient could sit upright.
• At 15 days, the patient had sensation in her hips and could move them, and could elevate both legs by about a centimeter.
  
• By day 25 her feet responded to stimulation.
• 41 days and doctors noticed a beginning regeneration of the injured area of the patient's spinal cord.