A paralysed man has been able to walk again after a pioneering therapy that involved transplanting cells from his nasal cavity into his spinal cord.<\/p>\n
Darek Fidyka, who was paralysed from the chest down in a knife attack in 2010, can now walk using a frame.<\/p>\n
The treatment, a world first, was carried out by surgeons in Poland in collaboration with scientists in London.<\/p>\n
Details of the research are published in the journal Cell Transplantation.<\/p>\n
BBC One’s Panorama programme had unique access to the project and spent a year charting the patient’s rehabilitation.<\/p>\n
Darek Fidyka, 40, from Poland, was paralysed after being stabbed repeatedly in the back in the 2010 attack.<\/p>\n
He said walking again – with the support of a frame – was “an incredible feeling”, adding: “When you can’t feel almost half your body, you are helpless, but when it starts coming back it’s like you were born again.”<\/p>\n