RussiaSurgeons glued a donor spinal cord segment into a patient this month.
Evidence it will restore movement is thin, and details of the operation are scant.
They cut a section out of a completely injured cord, in what New Scientist calls a world first.
Nothing released so far shows whether the patient regained movement.
How each outlet framed it
- New Scientist leans critical
- argues the Russian spinal cord transplant lacked the evidence to justify it, invoking Salk's controlled testing as the contrast
Sources: New Scientist