From paralyzed rats to humans in one year - wow!

A groundbreaking study on rats paralyzed due to spinal ischemia will result in human trails this year!!
After being injected with human spinal stem cells all of the rats were either able to walk within six weeks OR had improved mobility in their lower joints and increased muscle tone. A control group given a placebo was included in the study.
What happened was for the first time the neural circuitry had been reconstructed.
The outcomes in humans are expected to be better still as they will be able to receive intensive physical therapy after treatment.
The company that devloped the procedure has filed for a human trial to treat paraplegic patients in 2007.
These results could not have been achieved without being able to produce neural stem cells of the human brain and spinal cord in commercial quantities and shows that adult stem cells from this source can differentiate into mature, physiologically relevant human neurons and glia.
I fail to understand how this sort of news did not make headlines in any major print media that I searched. The possibilities are exciting and will give realistic hope to so many people. Once again it is adult stem cells that are providing all the new treatment options. We already have successful therapies using adult stem cells from circulating blood helping hundreds of sufferers of end-stage heart failure, cardiomyopathy and ischemic heart disease. These patients would be dead if they had listened to their cardiologist - instead they are back doing things like skippering catamarans and on the golf course.