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added 2007 Fri May 4 18:10:48 by populist
Director Rob Reiner has created a fifteen minute sequel to his mockumentary classic This is Spinal Tap. While the short film was featured at the Tribeca Film Festival in April, it won't be released in theaters any time soon. It is available, however, online.
added 2007 Wed Apr 25 16:19:36 by charbarred
Spinal Tap is back, and this time the band wants to help save the world from global warming.The mock heavy metal group immortalized in the 1984 mockumentary, "This is Spinal Tap," will reunite for a performance at Wembley Stadium in London as part of the Live Earth concerts scheduled worldwide for July 7.
added 2007 Wed Feb 28 18:07:50 by Aidenag
Scientists at Forsyth may have moved one step closer to regenerating human spinal cord tissue by artificially inducing a frog tadpole to re-grow its tail at a stage in its development when it is normally impossible. Using methods including a kind of gene therapy, the scientists altered the electrical properties of cells thus inducing regeneration.
added 2007 Mon Feb 26 9:40:02 by EvieVonTess
Doctors at a hospital here have claimed they successfully used stem cell therapy to enable a 25-year-old man, who injured his spinal cord in a fall in July last year, to walk normally again. This is the first time that Indian doctors have resorted to stem cell therapy to cure spinal cord problems, said J S Rajkumar, chief surgeon of the corporat
added 2007 Wed Jan 17 18:00:24 by Bkumm
BOSTON (Reuters) - Human embryonic stem cells can help regenerate damaged nerves in rats, producing compounds that nurture nerve cells and stimulate the growth of new ones, Geron Corp. said on Wednesday.