A big question in regenerative medicine is how to most effectively deliver stem cells -- as well as other beneficial cells, proteins and large molecules -- to damaged tissues such as the spinal cord, heart and brain...
Victims of severe spinal injuries may someday be able to avoid paralysis if given a treatment targeting their genes in the hours after they are hurt, according to a new study released today...
MADISON, Wis., June 24 (UPI) -- A U.S. National Institutes of Health-funded laboratory study suggests the B vitamin folate can promote healing in damaged rat spinal cord tissue.
The investigation, led by University of Wisconsin-Madison Dr. Bermans Iskandar, an associate professor of neurosurgery, showed the nerve regeneration in the rats ..
The U.S. military has invested $1 million in local research to develop an antibody that can block damaging inflammation after a spinal cord or brain injury,
Tested on mice by scientists at the Robarts Research Institute, the therapy aims to limit damage caused by the inflammation that occurs after the initial injury...
The immune system produces antibodies in order to protect the body against invading pathogens such as viruses and bacteria. These viruses and bacteria function not only as soldiers but all nurses and this it appears was never known before. Researchers...
Scientists at the Anticancer Research Centre in San Diego have made a revolutionary invention. According to this discovery, severe spinal cord injuries can be treated with mice hair. The scientists presented their findings at the World Congress for Hair Research in Cairns...
The International Society for Stem Cell Research plans to evaluate the claims of clinics offering experimental stem cell treatments of dubious value.
By Emily Singer
From spinal cord injury in China to heart disease in Thailand, desperate patients trolling the internet can find a number of clinics and companies offering purported stem cell therapies of dubious value and great expense. According to Irving Weissman, president of the non...
By Karin Kloosterman
May 06, 2010
An Israeli discovery allowing stem cells to be cultivated in quantities ample enough to meet the world's needs means that stem cell therapy could soon be within the reach of millions.
Mass-market manufacture of stem cells is closer than ever after a breakthrough by researchers from Hadassah University Medical Center
May 05, Medicine & Health/Health
Dr. Suzy Kim assesses the rehabilitative progress of a spinal injury patient at UC Irvine Medical Center. The sooner therapy is started, she says, the better the chances are of recovering function. Image: Daniel A. Anderson
(PhysOrg.com) -- When UC Irvine physician Dr. Suzy Kim arrives bedside in her wheelchair, patients with traumatic spinal cord injuries see a rolling testament to the power of early and intensive rehabilitation.
Kim was an athletic, third-year medical student who dreamed of becoming a sports doctor...
Gene Injection, Delivered to Mice Soon After Spinal Injury, Seems to Aid Recovery
Spinal cords of rats shown 24 hours after cervical injury. The rat whose spinal cord is shown in A...
Spinal cords of rats shown 24 hours after cervical injury. The rat whose spinal cord is shown in A received no active treatment whereas the rat whose spinal cord is shown in B was treated to suppress Abcc8, demonstrating a noticeable reduction in hemorrhage.