Tag: Stem Cells

Varied therapies for spinal cord injury

There is no cure for a spinal cord injury, but much headway has been made in clinical research that could lead to one. Other...

New stem cell therapy for spinal injuries

Namita's life came to a standstill the day she suffered a spinal cord injury 16 years ago. Bound to a wheelchair all these years,...

Fil-Am is most severely wounded Iraq veteran

The most severely wounded and disabled US soldier to return home from Iraq is a Filipino-American by the name of Joseph “Jay” Briseno Jr....

Gel Enables Severed Spinal Cord Fibers to Regrow

April 10 (HealthDay News) -- A nano-engineered gel that inhibits the formation of scar tissue at the site of a spinal injury and enables...

Experimental Russian stem cell treatments for spinal injury credited for woman’s progress

When Kadi DeHaan took her first steps in December, two years after a car accident forced her into a wheelchair, she did it in...

Promising new nanotechnology for spinal cord injury

CHICAGO -- A spinal cord injury often leads to permanent paralysis and loss of sensation below the site of the injury because the damaged...

Now, Aussie hope for Manjunath

NEW DELHI: On Friday, Manjunath Kalmani received a special visitor at his bedside at the Safdarjung Hospital's intensive care unit. After reading the paralysed techie's...

Nano Scaffold Developed To Rebuild Nerve Damage

ScienceDaily (Feb. 27, 2008) — A Monash University PhD student has developed a new technique that could revolutionise stem cell treatment for Parkinson's disease...

StemCyte Expands Support of World Renowned Spinal Cord Injury Researcher Through Agreement with Rutgers...

StemCyte, Rutgers Sign Research, Licensing Agreement for Novel Human Umbilical Cord Blood Treatment for Spinal Cord Injury Being Developed by Wise Young, M.D., Ph.D. NEW...

Overturning 2006 vote favoring stem cell research is criminal

Fifteen months ago Missourians passed the Missouri Stem Cell Amendment to protect research for lifesaving cures that could benefit 125 million Americans. On Feb. 20...