Tag: Spinal Cord Injury
Governor signs spinal cord injury research bill
San Jose, CA (October 3) -- Students and teachers rejoiced! Athletes rejoiced! So with parents and advocates of spinal cord injury research, who...
Miracle Paralyzed Dad Shares His Family’s Story…40 Years After Football Injury
Paralyzed on Oct. 30, 1970, from spinal cord injury during Cornell football game, 60-year-old Long Island man speaks about re-inventing his life after tragic...
Northwestern first site open for spinal cord stem cell trial
Northwestern Medicine is the first site open for enrollment in a national clinical research trial of a human embryonic stem cell-based therapy for...
Woman in wheelchair to make charity skydive
A woman who is wheelchair-bound after a horrific car crash is to leap from an aeroplane to help others with similar spinal injuries.
Tanya Hawes,...
Progress and Promise in Spinal Cord Injury
The world’s first human embryonic stem cell-based clinical trial has been approved for the treatment of spinal cord injury.
Rick Hanson theme song celebrates 25 years
It was the song that encouraged Rick Hansen and inspired a nation as Rick wheeled 40,075 km around the world to show the potential...
Appeals court grants stay in stem cell case
The federal government will be allowed to keep funding stem cell research — for now.
An Aug. 23 ruling by a U.S. District Court judge...
Single gene regulates motor neurons in spinal cord
In a surprising and unexpected discovery, scientists at NYU Langone Medical Center have found that a single type of gene acts as a...
New Research Demonstrates Safety of Cord-blood-derived Stem Cell Treatments
Beike Biotechnology and Medistem, Inc. Report on 114 Patients Treated With Novel Cord Blood Stem Cell Protocol; New Approach Opens Door to Expanded Uses...
Animation of Stem Cells and a Spinal Cord Injury
This is a 3D animation of stem cells which heal a spinal cord injury.
