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An anonymous donation amounting to $4 million (£2.5 million) has been gifted to spinal cord injury research at the University of Kansas, no doubt bringing hope to many with the condition.

The gift is to support a team of researchers at the university's Medical Center's Institute for Neurological Disorders, which investigates research that could lead to recovery from spinal cord injury.

Peter Smith, director for the Institute for Neurological Disorders and the Spinal Cord Injuries Repair Program, explained that the team is to guide stem cells to become certain kinds of neurons at the right stage which can then be introduced to the site of the injury.

"There is a lot of evidence that suggests this will work, at least in test animals. The trick is it needs to work in people," he continued.

Meanwhile, researchers at the University of Wisconsin have been able to transform embryonic and induced human stem cells into astrocytes in the lab, according to research published in journal Nature Biotechnology.

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