Tag: Cancer
Spinal Cord Injury Facts & Stats
Since 1988, 45% of all injuries have been complete, 55% incomplete. Complete injuries result in total loss of sensation and function below the injury...
Race to Human Stem-Cell Trials
SAN DIEGO -- Several scientists have used embryonic or fetal stem cells to help rodents with spinal cord injuries walk again. The researchers travel...
Maryland must explore stem cells’ promise
OVERWHELMING scientific opinion supports embryonic stem cell research, and many believe it has the potential to revolutionize medicine.
The American Medical Association and the National...
Blue bracelets – a step toward a cure?
For Chaz Southard, hope exists in the form of a blue plastic bracelet.
"People naturally ask why you're wearing the bracelet and what it's for,"...
Stem-cell research still an embryonic business
Whoever learns to control embryonic stem cells that can morph into healthy human cells could be standing on a gold mine: Four million Americans...
Ethicists Wary of New Stem Cell Proposals
WASHINGTON -- A member of the President's Council on Bioethics and two Columbia University scientists are promoting new research methods that could, they say,...
Stem Cell Therapy Answer to Uncurable Diseases
Patients paralyzed by injuries to their spinal cords have the hope of walking again thanks to stem cell therapy, which is expected to become...
Most spinal-cord injury patients suffer ‘abnormal’ pain: poll
Three-quarters of paralyzed spinal-cord injury patients suffer from persistent abnormal pain, according to a study released Friday.
A group of spinal cord injury patients and...
Korean Scientists Succeed in Stem Cell Therapy
By Kim Tae-gyu - Staff Reporter
A team of Korean researchers claimed Thursday they had performed a miracle by enabling a patient, who could not...
AGY Therapeutics Phase 2 Clinical Development
Deal Validates AGY's Technology Platform, Which Enabled Discovery of Novel Target for Functional Recovery After Stroke
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. and KOBE, Japan, July 20...
