Tag: Medical Research
Optogenetics enables muscle contraction control
Neuroscientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT; Cambridge, MA) have shown that they can control muscle movement by applying optogenetics—a technique that enables...
Spinal Cord Injury: Promising Research to Restore Hand Function at UCLA
Daniel Lu, MD, and Reggie Edgerton, MD, recently received a five-year grant to explore new therapies for patients with spinal cord injuries from the...
Science sees future beyond Paralympics
PARIS - Imagine a future with no sporting events for paralysed people. A future in which there is no need, as all the would-be...
U.S. team conducts study using new cell technique in monkeys
A research team at Harvard University has conducted a preliminary study on monkeys paralyzed by spinal cord injuries using a newly found technique for...
Drug may reduce chronic pain for spinal cord injuries
West Lafayette, Indiana - Researchers have discovered that a known neurotoxin may cause chronic pain in people who suffer from paralysis, and a drug...
Spinal Injury Cures: Balancing Hope And Expectation
Reports of paralysed animals walking again can give unrealistic hopes to people with spinal injuries. What is more important is that they develop the...
Acorda Acquires Medtronic Drug, Fills Out Mid-Stage Neurology Pipeline
Today Hawthorne, NY-based Acorda Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ACOR) announced that it licensed an experimental compound to treat spinal cord injury from medical-device giant Medtronic (NYSE:...
Extensive Natural Recovery Seen After Spinal Cord Injury
Newswise — A study led by researchers in the Department of Neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine shows unexpected...
Just the beginning: Embryonic stem cells used on first patient
For the first time, surgeons have injected a spinal cord injury patient with human embryonic stem cells in a federally approved experiment, a biomedical...
Promise of stem cells fulfilled
clinical trial in Atlanta, Georgia, is proof that informed public debate is the key to medical advance
IF I'm honest, my first reaction to recent...
