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VIDEO: Evangelina is cured of Bubble Boy Disease

By |April 3rd, 2017|

Evangelina Padilla-Vaccaro was born with Bubble Boy Disease, also known as severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), a genetic, uniformly lethal disease that causes babies to be born without functioning immune systems. But today, thanks to stem cell research funded by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Evangelina is cured. See her parents speak in the video below.

Experimental stem cell therapy helps paralyzed man regain use of arms and hands

By |September 9th, 2016|

On March 6, just shy of his 21st birthday, Kristopher (Kris) Boesen of Bakersfield suffered a traumatic injury to his cervical spine when his car fishtailed on a wet road, hit a tree and slammed into a telephone pole.

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