Category Archives: stem cell research

http://www.wdrb.com/story/37203362/u-of-l-launches-groundbreaking-study-on-spinal-cord-injuries The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new University of Louisville School of Medicine study, in which it will test epidural stimulation for people who are paralyzed…

https://www.biospace.com/article/japanese-researchers-will-use-stem-cells-to-treat-spinal-cord-injuries-in-clinical-trial/ There could a new form of treatment in Japan for spinal cord injuries if a newly-approved clinical trial hits the mark. On Monday, a special committee of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in Japan approved a clinical research program at Tokyo’s Keio University to use induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells to treatContinue reading “Japanese Researchers Will Use Stem Cells to Treat Spinal Cord Injuries in Groundbreaking Clinical Trial”

https://newsroom.uw.edu/news/new-therapy-helps-some-regain-motion-lost-spinal-injury In a small study of physical therapy combined with a noninvasive method of stimulating spinal-cord nerve cells, University of Washington researchers helped six Seattle-area participants regain some hand and arm mobility…

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/jul/06072104.html By Hilary White, LISBON, July 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A team of researchers from Hospital de Egas, Lisbon, Portugal and Wayne State University Medical School in Michigan, USA, have shown that stem cells taken from the olfactory mucosa can be used successfully to treat spinal cord injuries, even years after the injury occurred.<BR>&nbsp;<BR>A reportContinue reading “Spinal Cord Injuries Improved Years Later with Patients’ Own Olfactory Cells”

http://www.news-medical.net/?id=21856 <P>February 12, 2007 (News-Medical.net)- A new company, Neurotex Ltd, has been established to develop novel silk-based products that have the potential to provide a new generation of nerve repair materials and treatments. <BR>To help Neurotex Ltd. carry out its developments, a £250,000 investment has been made by The Kinetique Biomedical Seed Fund.</P> <P>Neurotex LtdContinue reading “New approach to nerve repair with novel silk-based products”

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iKiaGFMU1teq1Unv4pq59vJHl4cwD8T1H44O1 <p>By Malcolm Ritter, Nov 20, 2007 (Associated Press)- Scientists have made ordinary human skin cells take on the chameleon-like powers of embryonic stem cells, a startling breakthrough that might someday deliver the medical payoffs of embryo cloning without the controversy.</p> <p>Laboratory teams on two continents report success in a pair of landmark papers releasedContinue reading “Stem Cell Breakthrough Uses No Embryos”

http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=116297 <p>With plans just approved for the first trial to treat spinal cord injuries in humans with embryonic stem cells, a team of Northwestern scientists is tackling the problem from a different angle: through microscopic messenger molecules that can tell the disconnected nerve cells to re-grow.</p> <p>The molecules are called nanofibers, and scientists at Northwestern’sContinue reading “Microscopic fibers string spinal cord back together”

http://www.brainandspinalcord.org/blog/2010/01/19/underwater-treadmills-provide-cutting-edge-spinal-cord-injury-rehab/ <p>Physical therapist Sandra Stevens first explored the use of underwater treadmills at Middle Tennessee State University with children suffering from cerebral palsy. She hypothesized that the underwater system might also have profound benefits for spinal cord injury patients struggling to relearn how to walk and move. Stevens noted dramatic improvement…</p>

http://www.thestreet.com/story/11073376/1/biotime-and-xennex-form-lifemap-sciences-inc-to-create-roadmap-for-regenerative-medicine.html <p>BioTime, Inc. (NYSE Amex: BTX), a biotechnology company that develops and markets products in the field of stem cells and regenerative medicine, today announced it has formed LifeMap Sciences, Inc., in collaboration with XenneX, Inc. LifeMap Sciences will develop and commercialize a database of the thousands of cell lineages branching from embryonic stem cells,Continue reading “BioTime And XenneX Form LifeMap Sciences, Inc. To Create Roadmap For Regenerative Medicine”

http://healthland.time.com/2012/07/31/a-breakthrough-at-last-for-spinal-cord-injury-research/ In the early winter of 1988, I traveled to Miami to visit Marc Buoniconti. He was 24 years old at the time, and in many ways looked quite fit — full of energy, chattering on about his plans, exactly what you’d expect from a person his age. But Buoniconti wasn’t fit. He was inContinue reading “A Breakthrough at Last for Spinal Cord Injury Research?”

http://www.denverpost.com/paralysis/ci_24381471/will-i-walk-again?source=googlenews Story by Michael Booth, Photography by Craig F. Walker, Videography by AAron Ontiveroz The Denver Post It is Day 1,097 since James Nall’s right leg stopped listening to him. Nall sits on a couch just 10 feet from the stairway where he fell and broke his neck. Moving on from a devastating spinal-cord injuryContinue reading “Therapy for spinal-cord injuries helping Coloradans regain mobility”

http://health.usnews.com/health-news/articles/2015/07/31/noninvasive-stimulation-gets-legs-moving-after-spinal-cord-injury By Mary Elizabeth Dallas, HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, July 31, 2015 (HealthDay News) — A noninvasive procedure might help people with paralysis move their legs without the need for surgery or implanted devices, new research suggests…

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/uomm-mer013119.php MINNEAPOLIS, MN- January 31, 2019 – There are more than 290,000 people estimated to be living in the United States with a spinal cord injury. Previously, it has been shown that it is possible to restore some function to young and healthy patients within a few years of injury. Now, researchers show spinal cordContinue reading “Medical experts restore movement and autonomic function in patients with complete paralysis”

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20060823005359&newsLang=en August 23, 2006 (businesswire.com) – Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems, Inc. (OTCBB: CYKN; "Cyberkinetics") announced that preliminary results from the pilot trials of Cyberkinetics’ BrainGate Neural Interface System (BrainGate) were presented at the Neural Interfaces Workshop in Bethesda, Maryland, sponsored by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke …

http://savannahnow.com/node/234297 <P>February 27, 2007 (Savannah Morning News)- A state Senate bill calls for a program to educate expecting parents on the benefits of donating umbilical cord blood to stem cell research.</P> <P>MORE PARENTS might decide to donate the stem cells from their babies’ umbilical cord blood if they knew the procedure was free, easy andContinue reading “Cord blood promises life”