Bulgarian surgeons have sucessfully carried out a unique implant of stem cells into a patient's spinal cord, it was announced Monday.

The unique surgery intervention was carried out a week ago at Sofia-based Alexandrovska Hospital.

Dimitar Tchobanov, 45, from the town of Elhovo has had both his legs paralyzed and arms hardly moving due to almost entire loss of sensitivity in a car crash in 2002.

The surgeons have waited several days before publishing any news to make sure that the patient would start to improve.

The stems cells were taken from the marrow of the patient's pelvic and chest bones and implanted in his spinal cord.

By growing a human stem cell colony from a single cell, researchers are one step closer to deriving a homogenous population of cells of a particular type.

This type of cells has the remarkable potential to develop into many different cell types in the body. Serving as a sort of repair system for the body, they can theoretically divide without limit to replenish other cells as long as the person or animal is still alive.

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