Tag: regenerative medicine
UCLA professor developing potential treatment for spinal cord injuries
A UCLA professor is working to develop a treatment for spinal cord injuries, which are currently incurable.
Stephanie Seidlits, assistant professor of bioengineering, will attempt...
Generating improvement in spinal cord injuries
Early clinical trial results announced offer new hope in regenerative medicine
A new therapy to treat spinal cord injuries in people who have lost all...
UT Southwestern Researchers Amplify Regeneration of Spinal Nerve Cells
Newswise — DALLAS – Oct. 11, 2016 – UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers successfully boosted the regeneration of mature nerve cells in the spinal...
Improving cell transplantation after spinal cord injury: When, where and how?
Spinal cord injuries are mostly caused by trauma, often incurred in road traffic or sporting incidents, often with devastating and irreversible consequences, and unfortunately...
Scientists pinpoint molecular signal that drives and enables spinal cord repair
Researchers from King's College London and the University of Oxford have identified a molecular signal, known as 'neuregulin-1', which drives and enables the spinal...
Will ‘factories’ churn out billions of stem cells?
When using this form of gene editing, Cedars-Sinai scientists can more efficiently insert reporter genes that glow when a stem cell turns into a...
German Scientists create lab-grown spinal cords
For the first time, researchers in Germany have been able to create spinal cords in a Petri dish. To be more precise, they didn’t...
Team tricked scar tissue on spinal cord injury into becoming new nerves without stem...
Many believe the ultimate solution in regenerative medicine will be inducing the body to mimic the activity of stem cells without having to transplant...
