A new documentary shines a light on the breakthroughs that are being made or are close to being made in finding cures to previously incurable diseases
Ryan Custer was a freshman
basketball player at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, when, in April 2017, he jumped into a pool at a house party and shattered his C5 vertebra. Paralyzed from the chest down, Custer entered a clinical trial in
Chicago for an experimental stem cell therapy that could restore limited nerve function one centimeter – shoulder shrug, bicep motion, tricep use – at a time.
Cheryl Wiers, a mother in her 40s, saw her aggressive non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma return twice, with a vengeance. Chemotherapy wasn’t working, but a clinical trial for a transplant of stem cells at City of Hope medical center in Duarte,
California, offered hope.