Silent cells deep in your spinal cord may hold a surprising key to healing after devastating injuries and brain disease. A ...

A research team has developed a way to produce a subset of highly specialised brain neurons that centrally degenerate in motor neuron disease and are damaged in spinal cord injury, laying foundations ...

Researchers have developed a way to grow a highly specialized subset of brain nerve cells that are involved in motor neuron disease and damaged in spinal injuries. Their study, published today in ...

An experimental study from the University of Birmingham has brought the long-awaited hope of a treatment for acute spinal cord injury (SCI) one step closer. The research involved using an existing ...

Spinal cord injuries are currently incurable with devastating effects on people's lives, but now a trial at Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland offers hope for an effective treatment. Spinal ...

An individual may become completely paralyzed because of any number of accidents that interfere with the functioning of the ...

The study introduces a novel "multi-route" administration protocol for Wharton’s Jelly-derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells (WJ-MSCs). Unlike previous trials that relied on a single delivery method, this ...

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the University of Auckland in New Zealand have developed a groundbreaking bioelectric implant that restores movement in rats after ...

A Phase 1 human clinical trial to treat chronic spinal cord injury, the first of its kind in the world, has commenced to test the efficacy and safety of a revolutionary new treatment using nasal cells ...

Surgical procedure. Image by Pfree2014 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 Surgical procedure. Image by Pfree2014 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 “Dancing molecules”, as dubbed by the researchers, is a promising new ...