Tag: Stem Cells

Stem cell from umbilical cord blood used to treat paralysis

By UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL SEOUL -- South Korean researchers say they've used stem cell therapy to enable a paralyzed patient to walk after she was...

Stem cell therapy helps patient walk again, South Korea

A team of Korean researchers claimed Thursday they had performed a miracle by enabling a patient, who could not even stand up for the...

Korean Scientists Succeed in Stem Cell Therapy

By Kim Tae-gyu - Staff Reporter A team of Korean researchers claimed Thursday they had performed a miracle by enabling a patient, who could not...

Stem-Cell Industry, Research Evolving

With Limits on Federal Funding for Stem Cells, Researchers Look for Private and Business Backing By ERIC NOE Much has been made of President Bush's 2001...

Family pins hope on research

4-year-old injured in 2003 accident making progress By Lisa Scheller, News Editor He careens through his house in his wheelchair, zipping from one room to another...

California’s 21st-century Stem Cell Gold Rush

Roxanne Khamsi A pill-sized brain chip has allowed a quadriplegic man to check e-mail and play computer games using his thoughts. The device can tap...

Quadriplegic man travels to China for stem cell research

By Kevin Otzenberger - Times-News correspondent BLISS -- A 31-year-old Bliss man will travel to China in January to undergo an experimental treatment that might...

Reeve Courageously Backed Stem Cell Research/ CureParalysisNow mourns the loss of THE GREATEST SCI...

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Christopher Reeve, the paralyzed actor who died nine years after a riding accident, worked tirelessly...

Stem-cell studies divide America

Is Sen. John Kerry "a cannibal in a suit?" Or does the Democratic presidential nominee’s platform on embryonic stem-cell research offer the best-known hope...

New University College London Unit Holds Out Hope Of Repair Of Spinal Cord Injuries

Clinical trials that could ultimately lead to repair of spinal cord injuries are scheduled to begin within three years at University College London, following...