LONDON - Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have shown that it is possible to guide regenerating axons-severed wires of the spinal cord-to their correct targets and re-form connections after spinal cord injury.
WASHINGTON - A new study has revealed that a common food dye that gives M and Ms and Gatorade their blue tint might help in treating spinal cord injury.
WASHINGTON - Scientists have developed a novel headset that makes it possible for a person suffering from spinal cord injury to precisely control a wheelchair or computer using the tongue.
WASHINGTON - Scientists from The University of Texas Health Science Centre at Houston are developing a robotic device to help recovering stroke and spinal cord injury patients.
SYDNEY - You may take longer to recover from a back injury if you are stressed over your job or are living alone, according to a recent study.
WASHINGTON - Researchers from Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified a molecular pathway that can be a potential therapeutic target for Down’s syndrome, the most frequent cause of mental retardation.
Latest study done by the researchers of Johns Hopkins University proves that spinal injury patients can get long term recovery if they attend physical therapy sessions after attending spinal cord surgery.
Les McLaughlin is 50 and a patient of paraplegics. He had lost his power of legs in an accident way back in 1999. But that can not prevent him from braving the Rocky Mountains, torrential downpours and the boredom of the road in the hopes of raising enough funding to further research into the regeneration [...]
Shenzhen Beike Biotechnology Co., Ltd. announced the successful treatment of two similar spinal cord injury patients using two different procedures that involved umbilical cord stem cells.
One method involved surgical transplantation of stem cells directly into the spinal cord, while the other patient received the stem cells without surgery. The announcement was made following a [...]
In a dramatic display of stem cells’ potential for healing, a team of Johns Hopkins scientists reports that they’ve engineered new, completed, fully-working motor neuron circuits — neurons stretching from spinal cord to target muscles — in paralyzed adult animals.
The research, in which mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells were injected into rats whose virus-damaged spinal [...]
