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A doctor in India has been speaking of how stem cell therapy, which has proved successful in the treatment of spinal cord injury, has dramatically improved her motor neuron disease.

Dr Hemangi Sane told the Times of India that the treatment had allowed her to speak properly again and to hold her shoulders back and her head up high.

The 31-year-old received a dose of stem cell therapy for her muscular dystrophy at the civic-run Sion Hospital four months ago, the newspaper reported.

"We have treated 76 patients with various diseases so far and most are doing much better than they were doing before the therapy," Dr Alok Sharma, who began the stem cell treatment, told the newspaper.

In November 2009 Geron Corporation announced that it had plans to re-initiate the Phase I clinical trial of GRNOPC1, a human embryonic stem cell product, in patients with complete thoracic spinal cord injury.

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