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Could nose cells treat spinal cord injuries?
Scientists developing robust method to treat spinal cord injuries using nose cells
Researchers have designed a new way to grow nose cells in the lab heralding hope for sufferers of spinal cord injuries, including those...
‘I might be quadriplegic, but I’m your doctor’
When medical student Dinesh Palipana suffered a severe spinal injury in a car crash, he was told his dream of becoming a doctor was over. Now he's Queensland's first quadriplegic doctor, working at one...
Soon-to-be doctor behind new spinal cord research six years after becoming quadriplegic
MOST doctors study for years so they can help others but for Southport’s Dinesh Palipana, it is much more Âpersonal.
A month out from his graduation ceremony at Griffith University, the 32-year-old doesn’t just want...
Cure for spinal cord injuries nose ahead with nasal cell transplants
QUEENSLAND researchers are a step closer to human trials of a potential treatment for spinal cord injuries involving transplants of nasal cells combined with physiotherapy.
Griffith University neuroscientist James St John said he hoped to...
Spinal cord treatment offers hope
Queensland University of Technology (QUT) researchers have developed a promising new treatment for spinal cord injury in animals, which could eventually prevent paralysis in thousands of people worldwide every year.
Dr Ben Goss, from...