Tag: Treatments

Current Understanding

To understand how treatment for spinal cord injury can be improved, it is important to understand the normal spinal cord and its functions, how...

Stops Pulled on Nerve Regeneration

By Gabe Romain, Betterhumans Staff "Stepping on the gas" could lead to better spinal cord treatments A two-pronged strategy of enhancing growth and halting growth inhibitors...

Secondary damage

Damage to the spinal cord does not stop with the initial injury, but continues in the hours following trauma. Paradoxically, this delayed, secondary damage...

Stem-cell research still an embryonic business

Whoever learns to control embryonic stem cells that can morph into healthy human cells could be standing on a gold mine: Four million Americans...

With some help from her friends

Whoever learns to control embryonic stem cells that can morph into healthy human cells could be standing on a gold mine: Four million Americans...

Stem Cells Found In Adults May Repair Nerves

It used to be considered dogma that a nerve, once injured, could never be repaired. Now, researchers have learned that some nerves, even nerves...

BOEC lands “Quality of Life’ grant

BRECKENRIDGE - The Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation (CRPF) has awarded the Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center (BOEC) a $10,000 Quality of Life Grant as part...

Scientists create human embryos through cloning, extract embryonic stem cells

For the first time, scientists have achievedhuman "therapeutic cloning," creating human embryos through cloning and extracting stem cells that were thenmorphed into other kinds...

Human clones verified

For the first time, scientists have achievedhuman "therapeutic cloning," creating human embryos through cloning and extracting stem cells that were thenmorphed into other kinds...

Scientists Clone First Human Embryo

Genetically Identical Cells May One Day Cure Disease Researchers in South Korea say they are the first to successfully clone a human embryo and use...