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With me, Chris Smith, coming up, whether our belly fat could be key to helping people with spinal

injuries, did an early growth spurt give dinosaurs an evolutionary advantage

and we'll be finding out if sporting prowess is all in the mind's eye.

From Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education, this is the Naked Scientists.

First this week might an injection of stem cells growing from your own

abdominal fat be the key to improving outcomes for people with spinal cord injuries.

In an early stage trial in America, scientists have found that over two-thirds of the small group

of patients they treated showed improvements.

They think that the stem cells are boosting the blood supply to the

injured region of the spinal cord and helping to control inflammation, which may

in turn lead to reduced scarring and better prospects for recovering some of the lost nerve connections.

Mohammed Biden is a neurosurgeon at the Mayo Clinic and led the new study.

The historical teaching around spinal cord injury is you deliver surgery, you do physiotherapy,

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