Tag: Stem Cells
Researcher says cure for paralysis is within reach
Nearly 300,000 people in the U.S. are living with a spinal cord injury. Every year, 12,000 people are told they'll never walk again after...
Stem cells: An exciting future for medicine
Ben Sykes, executive director of the UK National Stem Cell Network gives an overview of where stem cell research is heading
Few readers of...
Teaching the paralyzed to walk again
A California scientist was able to get paralyzed rats running again, but can he do the same thing for humans?
HealthFirst reporter Leslie Toldo tells...
Stem Cell Research: The Debate on Ethics
Medical science has come a long way since the days of Hippocrates. The discovery of wonder drugs called antibiotics, the formulation of anaesthesia that...
Modified Adult Stem Cells May Be Helpful in Spinal Cord Injury
Researchers at UTHealth have demonstrated in rats that transplanting genetically modified adult stem cells into an injured spinal cord can help restore the electrical...
Safety Follow-up of Adult Stem Cell Patients Yields Promising Results
The XCell-Center has completed a promising safety follow-up of 870 patients who were treated by lumbar puncture for various indications such as spinal cord...
Histostem Participates in Successful Stem Cell Treatment for Acute Spinal Cord Injury in Dogs
TAMPA, FL--(Marketwire - February 8, 2010) - Stem Cell Therapy International, Inc. (OTCBB: SCII) announced that Histostem Ltd. of South Korea ("Histostem") has...
First U.S. Stem Cells Transplanted into Spinal Cord
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- For the first time in the United States, stem cells have been directly injected into the spinal cord of a...
Stem cell target: Repair spinal cord damage
SCI Research Advancement is working with adult stem-cell treatments to cure spinal cord injuries.
SCI, which stands for "spinal cord injury," was founded by Will...
Stem cell offers man with bulllet injury new shot at life
MUMBAI: For 34-year-old Deepak Singh, stem cell therapy might not have worked the first time, but the second time, it has given him a...
