Tag: Spinal Cord
Embryonic stem cells trial on track to start
The first clinical trial of embryonic stem cells is on track to start early next year on patients with spinal cord injury. Geron (NASDAQ:GERN...
Marsupial Genome Sequence to Advance Human Health Studies
Newswise — Being announced this week in the journal Nature is the sequencing of the genome of the gray, short-tailed opossum, Monodelphis domestica, an...
United Spinal Association Test Rides Standard Taxi
Terence J. Moakley, director of the United Spinal Association's Taxis For All- North America project, reversed his wheelchair into the Standard Taxi prototype, the...
Acts of kindness
After dating for more than three years, DeShawn Seals and Chantilla Moore planned on tying the knot on Valentine's Day.
Three days before the couple...
‘I feel stronger and stronger every day’
Wheelchair-bound Andrew Merryweather reckons that by Christmas, he will be walking again - at least with crutches.
Merryweather was attacked at a Newlands petrol station...
Former clinic surgeon sues ex-employer
MADISON - Was a former Marshfield Clinic neurosurgeon an overly aggressive practitioner whose zeal to heal resulted in unnecessary and risky surgeries, or did...
Q Therapeutics Announces New Stem Cell Patent
SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Q Therapeutics, Inc. announced today that it was awarded Patent Number 7,214,372, titled "Methods Using Lineage Restricted Glial Precursors from the...
MARS® Drink gets spinally injured teenagers back on track
MARS Drink is supporting spinally injured teenagers by encouraging them to get out on the ski runs of Sweden.
Teenagers aged 13-17 who have suffered...
Battle for London 2012 gold
When Sergeant Mick Brennan was caught in a suicide bombing in Iraq, the outlook was bleak.
Hurled 25 ft by the force of the explosion,...
Banning stem cell research prolongs suffering
Diabetes affects 140,000 young Australians, who would die unless they received multiple insulin injections each day of their lives. The cause is the self-destruction...
