Or they have spinal columns, or they don't have spinal columns.

Wait, poor spinal capacity.

People with spinal cord injuries,

In the spinal ward, that's normal.

Finally, this last, the spinal in optimal

Reflexes in the spinal cord have been lost.

A diet including bone marrow fueled further brain growth.

So actually how do we harvest this bone marrow?

And we found, to our surprise, that we not only got bone marrow out, but we got 10 times the stem cell activity in the marrow from the Marrow Miner, compared to the normal device.

They moved me from intensive care to acute spinal.

I was lying on a thin, hard spinal bed.

We use those in my field of bone marrow transplantation.

Look closely for spinal lordosis, scoliosis, or paravertebral muscle spasm.

She had a spina bifida defect, a spinal cord abnormality.

And the Marrow Miner, the way it works is shown here.

It starts by killing the motor neurons in your spinal cord.

The central nervous system is... your brain and your spinal cord.

The spinal cord had breaks. The neurons were crossing in every which way.

Their fever is down and the blood and spinal count is greatly improved.

We've just come out, we're commercializing, this year, generation 2.0 of the Marrow Miner.

There is the brain stem in between the cerebral cortex and the spinal cord.

Well, there wasn't much else to do in the spinal ward, so we did.

And, when they eventually betray us to the marrow, there is no way to resist !

I didn't bring a human brain, but I did bring a liter of bone marrow.

And then I remembered my friends that were still in the spinal ward, particularly Maria.

I invented a device called the MarrowMiner, a much less invasive way for harvesting bone marrow.

We're sending his marrow across the country to save the life of a child with leukemia.

So why should you care? Bone marrow is a very rich source of adult stem cells.

It may encourage more people to sign up to be potential live saving bone marrow donors.

We take our own bone marrow cells and treat a patient with a heart attack, we can see much improved heart function and actually better survival using our own bone marrow drive cells after a heart attack.

They picked as much broken bone as they could that had lodged in my spinal cord.

This was a device that a nurse uses when they're doing a spinal procedure in hospital.

And so this informs, among other things, of course, a treatment for bone marrow transplant, which he undertakes.

So I thought of a minimally invasive approach, and a new device that we call the Marrow Miner.

laterally, vertically, up and down in the spinal cord and they start interacting with other adjacent cells.

So it enables you to very rapidly aspirate, or suck out, rich bone marrow very quickly through one hole.

Mice with multiple myeloma, an incurable malignancy of the bone marrow, respond dramatically to the treatment with this drug.

Geron, just last year, started the first trial using human embryonic stem cells to treat spinal cord injuries.

In fact, the whole technology of sperm extraction for spinal cord injured males was invented by a veterinarian.

And each of us knew that when we left the spinal ward we would never be the same.

The headquarters for orgasm, along the spinal nerve, is something called the sacral nerve root, which is back here.

It is a fact that when our organs or tissues are injured, our bone marrow releases stem cells into our circulation.

I can once again celebrate in the marrow of my bones the very essence of living in Israel on the edge.

I was airlifted from the scene of the accident by a rescue helicopter to a large spinal unit in Sydney.

like people with spinal cord injuries or wounded soldiers, by having them control a prosthetic arm directly with their brain.