Study on dogs could help paralysed people

British scientists are hoping that a treatment that has helped paralysed dogs to move could also help people. As the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk reports, veterinary surgeons from the University of Cambridge http://www.cam.ac.uk have treated nine dogs, who were all able to move their hind leg jerkily, within a month. The treatment involves taking nerve cells from the brain and injecting them into the damaged part of the spinal cord. According to an expert from the Institute of Neurology, the same benefits could be seen in humans. An Australian team has already treated humans with OEG cells, but the results will not be published until 2007.