Tag: Clinical Trial
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...
Purdue licenses paralysis treatment to Indiana-based Andara Life Science
Purdue Research Foundation has signed a license agreement with Andara Life Science Inc. The agreement grants the company exclusive commercial rights to a platform...
Company gets rights to paralysis treatment
By Max Showalter, Journal and Courier
A life sciences company formed just four months ago in the Purdue Research Park has been given the green...
New Avenues of Research Open for Treating Spinal Cord Injuries
Concerted National Effort Needed To Develop New Therapies
Washington, D.C. - infoZine - Recent discoveries about the Central Nervous System's capacity for Regeneration and repair...
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,"...
Moving Stem Cells Front and Center
IRVINE, Calif. - Hans S. Keirstead might be the Pied Piper of stem cells - and not just because he makes rats walk. He...
Device Shows Promise for Spinal Cord Injury
SATURDAY, Jan. 22 (HealthDayNews) -- A experimental device designed to regenerate nerve fibers in people with spinal cord injuries shows promise, says an Indiana...
‘BrainGate’ Brain-Machine-Interface takes shape
An implantable, brain-computer interface the size of an aspirin has been clinically tested on humans by American company Cyberkinetics. The 'BrainGate' device can provide...
Harvesting Stem Cells from Fat Tissue
Dr. Keith March and his team of researchers at the IU School of Medicine are finding a possible lifesaver, from a most surprising source:...
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...
