Tag: Stem Cells

U of L researchers get federal grants for spinal cord research

Elizabeth Fust was part of a crowd Monday honoring University of Louisville researchers who won $4.7 million in federal grants. For Fust, the ceremony...

Progress after Adult Stem Cell Therapy Offers New Hope to Iowa Spinal Cord Injury...

Rich Welsh, a 28 year-old insurance agent from Klemme, Iowa who suffered a spinal cord injury after an automobile accident in 1999, is now...

Nano scaffold rebuilds nerve damage

A Monash University PhD student has developed a new technique that could revolutionise stem cell treatment for Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injury. David Nisbet...

Stem cell scaffolding repairs nerves

A Monash University PhD student has developed a new technique that could revolutionise stem cell treatment for Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injury. David Nisbet...

Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation Awards Nearly $2 Million in Individual Research Grants

Foundation Continues Research Initiatives in Search of a Cure and Therapies for Paralysis SHORT HILLS, N.J., Jan. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- The Christopher and Dana Reeve...

Medical Marvel

Doctors can't explain why Pat Rummerfield is able to run marathons and race cars. Even so, there are scores of quadriplegics who long to...

Paralyzed woman helps raise funds for research

CUMBERLAND - A Cumberland woman who sustained a paralyzing spinal cord injury six years ago is using her abilities to help deal with her...

Researchers ask: Is China the sleeping giant of biotech?

PARIS (AFP) — China's biotech sector accounts for just a sliver of its pharmaceutical industry and operates under the cloud of a massive review...

China Offers Unproven Medical Treatments

BEIJING (AP) — They're paralyzed from diving accidents and car crashes, disabled by Parkinson's, or blind. With few options available at home in America,...

Desperate Americans seek unproven cell treatments in China

BEIJING (AP) - They're paralyzed from diving accidents and car crashes, disabled by Parkinson's, or blind. With few options available at home in America,...