When 26-year-old Prasad Sharma (name changed on request) started experiencing excruciating pain in his hip joints, doctors were baffled over what had caused such damage to his hipbones. However, instead of having to go in for a total hip replacement surgery, the young man is lucky enough to have practically had a part of his hipbones grow back, with the help of stem cell therapy.

The scan on the right shows an empty cavity, while the scan on the left shows it filled with stem cellsu00a0