Jim Gass was a wealthy man. He suffered a stroke i...  ...that the mass was made up of abnormal, primitive cells and that it was growing very aggressively. Then c...  ...ery aggressively. Then came the real shocker: The cells did not come from Jim Gass. They were someone els...  ...ome from Jim Gass. They were s...

An American woman suffering from paralysis volunt...  ...l de Egas Moniz in Lisbon, Portugal. Doctors took stem cells from the woman’s nose and implanted them in...  ...and implanted them in her spine, hoping that the cells would help her spinal cord regenerate nerve tiss...