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Meet Jasper
Looking at him running around you would think he's just a normal Dachshund
Though Until recently his hind legs were totally paralized due to a severed spinal cord
Oh very bad, just nothing in his hind legs just they were going flat along the floor behind him
And it's very distressing for them. They don't understand what the heck has happened
And for the owner to have seen this is ... is nightmare time
A cutting edge study at Cambridge university allowed with the use of cells from his noze
to succesfully regenerate cells of what was once a damaged spinal cord.
He's just a functioning dog now
He walks as they other dog. He goes on exactly the same length of walk
He goes into the same ditches he comes out of them. He's just another dog
And he's very good for it. He has just been out twice this morning and had no trouble at all
At this point the scientists hope this breakthrough would one day help treat humans with this condition