Tag: Spinal Cord Injury Research
Nutlins cancer drug may be able to reverse spinal cord damage
LONDON, UK - A group of drugs being tested for cancer treatment have been shown to present promising results for spinal cord injury in...
New study shows stem cell treatments promote faster healing in primates with spinal cord...
A new study appearing today in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine, designed to test how stem cell injections affect primates with spinal cord injury (SCI),...
Scientists Meet in Louisville to Share Research That Could Improve Treatments for Spinal Cord,...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (5/23/15) — More than a dozen leading basic scientists from around the nation and the world studying neurological function made presentations to...
Spinal Cord Axon Injury Location Determines Neuron’s Regenerative Fate
Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report a previously unappreciated phenomenon in which the location of injury to a neuron’s...
Injured spinal cord: Regeneration possible with epothilone?
Damage to the spinal cord rarely heals because the injured nerve cells fail to regenerate. The regrowth of their long nerve fibers is hindered...
Student working to restore walking in people with spiral cord injury
The Rick Hansen Foundation reported 86,000 people in Canada living with a spinal cord injury. Ashley Dalrymple, who hails from Wetaskiwin, is a student...
Cardiff man paralysed in major accident urges caution over ‘breakthrough’ on spinal cord injuries
A sound technician whose spine was shattered in a major accident has urged caution over a “breakthrough” procedure which enabled a man to walk...
ECU doctors receive grant to conduct research on spinal cord injuries
Two doctors at East Carolina University have been given funding from the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation for research that could help people living with...
Paralyzed rats regain use of hind legs with flexible spinal cord implant. Humans to...
Swiss scientists demonstrated a flexible ribbon-like implant that attaches itself to a paralyzed rat’s spinal cord, allowing the animal to walk again. The prosthetic,...
Research team identifies important control mechanisms for walking
Even after complete spinal paralysis, the human spinal cord is able to trigger activity in the leg muscles using electrical pulses from an implanted...
